Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books

By Nick Hornby

Book Overview

"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you--immediately, urgently, desperately--want to read more books?" (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade's worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column "Stuff I've Been Reading."

Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This "decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page." (the New York Times Book Review)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940450365
• ISBN13: 9781940450360
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"