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Some Sand with Your Proust?

In USA Today, Jack Murnighan, author of Beowulf on the Beach, shows his readers advisory chops by making the case for the classics as the best beach reading (but, not Proust, actually; Remembrance of Things Past takes too much concentration).

Murnighan will make you want to pack Moby Dick in your beach bag (“one of the funniest books of all time”).

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits
Jack Murnighan
Retail Price: $15.00
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press – (2009-05-19)
ISBN / EAN: 0307409570 / 9780307409577

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One Response to “Some Sand with Your Proust?”

  1. Aurel Rencontres Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    :) It’s a coincidence but I actually read Proust on my last holiday. It’s not bad, his melancholic style fits with the laziness of a holiday. It also depends on the holiday style!