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Both a psychological self-help book and a testimonial to reading, ReadFor Your Life combines bibliotherapy with an almost encyclopedic range of popular andscholarly literature. Although by no means an anthology, this book offers numerousquotations from, as well as explained allusions to, an astonishing range of books, fromShakespeare to Stephen King. F.Scott Fitzgerald to Erica Jong, Henry James to Judy Blume. Read For Your Life is a popular, even a populist book - energetic, colloquial,anecdotal, confessional and inspirational. It includes sections on reading forchildren, adolescents and the elderly; as well as reading during times of crisis, such asbereavement, divorce, and aging; reading for women, for those with disabilities and forracial minorities.Gold, Joseph is the author of 'Read for Your Life Literature As a Life Support System' with ISBN 9781550416251 and ISBN 1550416251.
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