{"product_id":"autobibliography","title":"Autobibliography","description":"In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across as painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol. In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bola�o and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading, and of a lifetime of books. Provocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40904075837525,"sku":"9781800750524N","price":7.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/7826fe50-a1c6-4a4f-bb1b-b3b01170fe7c.jpg?v=1727351921","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/autobibliography","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}