Leave me alone, I'm reading
Subtitle: finding and losing myself in books
By: Maureen Corrigan.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780375709036
Subjects: Corrigan, Maureen -- Books and reading.; Books and reading -- United States.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in the United Staes by Random House, in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-201).
Table of contents: title: Ain't no mountain high enough: women's extreme-adventure stories (and one of my own); title: Tales of toil: what John Ruskin and Sam Spade taught me about working for a living; title: "They're writing songs of love, but not for me": Gaudy night and other alternatives to the traditional "mating, dating, and procreating" plot; title: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition: what Catholic martyr stories taught me about getting to heaven; title: and getting even; title: Epilogue. My New York: September 8, 2001.