My Life in Middlemarch Paperback by Rebecca Mead

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2015-01-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385676885
• Item Weight: 240.41 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.11 x 1.63 cm

New York Times Bestseller

Named a Best Book of the Year by by The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, BookPage, Chicago Reader, Kirkus Review, Library Journal and more

“A poignant testimony to the abiding power of fiction.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, she leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written.

My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot’s masterpiece—the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure—and brings them into our world. Offering both an involving 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 lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.

About the Author

REBECCA MEAD has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997. She has profiled many subjects and has contributed more than two hundred pieces to the Talk of the Town. She is the author of One Perfect Day and My Life in Middlemarch, a New York Times bestseller. She has served as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London.