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A FEELING FOR BOOKS

The Book-of-the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire

By Janice A. Radway University of North Carolina Press 415 pp. $29.95 OSTENSIBLY this is a history of the Book-of-the-Month Club and its influence on its readers and on American attitudes, but it is much more, as the engaging introduction makes clear. It is also a personal memoir -- refreshing in its candor -- and a commentary on literary criticism and ideological analysis. The author, we learn, has had a lingering ambivalence toward the books she loved to read as a teenager and those she was obliged to ...

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