In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael
Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of
over 1500 well-read books on his shelves--but this isn't your typical
rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael Ross brings together quotes
on Time, Memory, Age, Past, Present, and Future, from such a new
perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book
useful and insightful.
Authors quoted include Tom Robbins, John Gardner, A.A. Milne, Anne
Tyler, Bernard Malamud, Elizabeth Goudge, John O'Hara, Jim Harrison,
Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Doig, Richard Russo, Graham Swift, John Casey,
George Garrett, Martin Davies, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, Richard
Brautigan, Colin Wilson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gore Vidal, Leon Uris,
Walker Percy, V.S. Naipaul, Thornton Wilder, John Updike, Anthony
Burgess, Paul Auster, Richard Powers, Richard Russo, William Martin,
Robert Penn Warren, John Gardner, Aldous Huxley, John Hersey, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Antoine Laurain, Dave Eggers, Honore de Balzac, John
Cheever, Oscar Wilde, Edward Abbey, Garrison Keillor, Lorrie Moore,
Doris Lessing, Elia Kazan, Tom Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, William
Kotzwinkle, Eric Ambler, Thomas McGuane, Graham Greene, W. Somerset
Maugham, Ethan Canin, Milan Kundera, and Hunter S. Thompson.
Also included are original illustrations by Cara Lowe of Hunter S.
Thompson, Willa Cather, John O'Hara, Thomas McGuane, Eric Ambler,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Honore de Balzac, Dave Eggers, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Richard Brautigan, Cormac
McCarthy, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Goudge, and Anne Tyler.
