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A New Yorker copy writer revisits the seminal book of her youth - Middlemarch - and fashions a singular, concerning story of how a passionate connection to a great work of literature can form our lives and help us to learn our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an British coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch,regarded by many as the best English book. After gaining admission to Oxford and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then relationship, and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The book, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "mostly of the English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reportage, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us in to the life that the book made for her, as well as the countless lives the book has led since it was written. Having a framework that deftly mirrors that of the book, My Life in Middlemarch requires the styles of Eliot's masterpiece - the complexness of love, the meaning of relationship, the foundations of morality, and the crisis of aspiration and failure - and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of the author herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent fan of literature who cares about why we read catalogs, and exactly how they read us.

Category: British & Irish