The perfect literary gift book: contributors include Margaret Atwood, Colm Toibin, David Malouf and many more.
The editors of 'Brick' magazine had the idea of celebrating the new century by asking their contributors for short essays about their favourite "lost classics": books they treasured and would love to pass on to friends, but that are, for all intents and purposes, forgotten. The next issue contained 32 such essays - pithy, witty, passionate, surprising - which led to the idea of soliciting more, and celebrating them again with a book.
In this book you will find Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Dr Glas; John Irving on 'The Headmaster's Papers' by Richard A Hawley; Edmund White on 'The Story Of Harold' by Terry Andrews; Helen Garner on the delightfully sinister Australian children's epic 'The Journey Of The Stamp Animals'; David Malouf on Stendahl's 'Life Of Rossini'; Jeffrey Eugenides on 'The Pilgrim Hawk' by G Westacott; and much more.
