We Are What We Read - Cregan-Reid Vybarr

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is anunlikely academic. Someone who knows what it's like to be written off, who leftschool with no qualifications, who desperately needed a second chance. He alsounderstands better than anyone the power of literature to change a life. From a turbulent start,through a disastrous education, truancy and petty crime, to a distinguishedcareer as an English professor, We Are What We Read weaves Vybarr's ownunexpected life in books with a spirited history of the war on the humanities,... Zobrazit více