Ebook: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
Author: Sankovitch Nina, Marlo Coleen, Sankovitch Nina
- Tags: Sankovitch Nina, Books and reading, Sankovitch Nina, Books and reading, United States, Books and reading, United States
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Harper Audio
- City: New York, United States
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- epub
Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books and authors (and even other Read more...
Abstract: Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books and authors (and even other readers), her life changed profoundly, and in unexpected ways. Reading, it turns out, can be the ultimate therapy