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A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called "Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books. [3]
Byung Ryul Lee, a well-known poet and prose writer for his bestseller Attraction, commented on Tablo's book in a blurb, found on the back of both the Korean and English versions. He says the book allowed him to understand the author better: “The first thought that crossed my head after reading his book was my spark of awareness of how lonely ...
Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman.Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between student Elio Perlman and visiting American scholar Oliver, chronicling their relationship and the 20 years that follow.
An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published on 6 April 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf (US) [2] and Harvill Secker (UK). [30] It is Murakami's first collection of short stories since Men Without Women (2014) and his first published book since the novel Killing Commendatore (2017). [3]
The book does not have a particular plot. It is designed with numerous blank spaces intended to be filled in by the reader (mostly written, with a few illustrations) with various pieces of information specific to themselves; hence the title, My Book About Me, and the author being listed as "Me, Myself" listing "some help" from Seuss and McKie ...
Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov.The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection.
Self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to an objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, etc.), but also items that have been learned by persons about themselves, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others.
Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict-of-interest editing and is strongly discouraged. Editing a biography about yourself is acceptable only if you are removing unambiguous vandalism or clear-cut and serious violations of our biography of living persons policy.