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020 $a9780143127789 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aPE64.N34$bA3 2014
082 00 $a813.009$223
084 $aBIO007000$aLIT004020$aLIT007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aNafisi, Azar.
245 14 $aThe republic of imagination :$bAmerica in three books /$cAzar Nafisi ; illustrations by Peter Sis.
246 30 $aAmerica in three books
264 1 $aNew York :$bViking Adult,$c2014.
300 $a338 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aPart I. Huck -- Part II. Babbitt -- Part III. Carson -- Epilogue.
520 $a"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others-she invites us to join her as citizens of her 'Republic of Imagination,' a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aNafisi, Azar.
650 0 $aEnglish teachers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aIranian American women$vBiography.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xAppreciation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNational characteristics in literature.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910.$tAdventures of Huckleberry Finn.
600 10 $aLewis, Sinclair,$d1885-1951.$tBabbitt.
600 10 $aMcCullers, Carson,$d1917-1967.$tHeart is a lonely hunter.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
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