By The Book: A Reader's Guide To Life
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By The Book: A Reader's Guide To Life by Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval's By The Book is about reading, living and the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. It is about learning to read (and asking her mother to buy her a copy of the Kama Sutra), about love and science (and her childhood ambition to be Marie Curie), about arctic exploration (and her ruminations on what part of a husky she would eat if she had to), about poetry and travel and falling in love. Koval explores why we love reading, and why books make life so much richer.Ramona Koval is a writer, editor and broadcaster. She is the host of The Monthly's 'The Monthly Book' and was previously the host of 'The Book Show' on ABC Radio National, heard weekdays across Australia, and podcast globally. She makes documentary features for radio, and has written newspaper features and columns on issues of the day. Transcripts of her interviews have been published in international newspapers, magazines, and in digital form. She has been invited to interview writers at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Montreal, Berlin, and all over Australia.
She is the author of a novel, Samovar, and four books of non-fiction, including a Jewish cookbook. She has worked as an academic at RMIT University and the University of Melbourne, and before that as a microbiologist and geneticist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781922079060 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922079065 |
| Title | By The Book: A Reader's Guide To Life |
| Author | Ramona Koval |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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