How Literature Saved My Life

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 by David Shields

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shields, David, 1956–

How literature saved my life / by David Shields. —1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book.”

eISBN: 978-0-307-96153-2

1. Shields, David, 1956—–Books and reading. 2. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 3. Criticism. I. Title.

PS3569.H4834Z469 2013

813′.54—dc23

[B] 2012036686

Internal photo series by Tom Collicott and David Shields

Front-of-jacket photograph by Geoff Spear

Jacket design by Chip Kidd

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