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Beach Reading: A History
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A genre-bending exploration of "beach reading"-the genre, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we love
Traces the literary and cultural history of the "beach read" genre, and how these coastal vacation reads shaped the beaches we love
The "beach read" has had an enormous, generally unacknowledged, impact on how we spend our leisure time, how we think about escape and pleasure, and how we experience the natural world. Blending memoir, archival research, an...
Traces the literary and cultural history of the "beach read" genre, and how these coastal vacation reads shaped the beaches we love
The "beach read" has had an enormous, generally unacknowledged, impact on how we spend our leisure time, how we think about escape and pleasure, and how we experience the natural world. Blending memoir, archival research, an...