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100 1 _aNafisi, Azar.
245 1 4 _aThe republic of imagination :
_bAmerica in three books /
_cAzar Nafisi.
246 3 0 _aAmerica in three books
264 1 _aNew York :
_bViking Adult,
_c2014.
300 _a338 pages ;
_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 1 0 _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.
_92152
650 0 _aNational characteristics in literature.
600 1 0 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910.
_tAdventures of Huckleberry Finn.
600 1 0 _aLewis, Sinclair,
_d1885-1951.
_tBabbitt.
600 1 0 _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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949 _aPE64 .N34 A3 2014
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