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With Borges
With Borges | Alberto Manguel
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In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk asking if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile. The young Manguel spent several years reading aloud and transcribing for the enigmatic Borges. Here he recalls this time with integrity and warmth, offering us an intimate and moving portrait of one of the great literary luminaries.
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When Alberto Manguel was 16 and working in a bookstore, he was asked by Jorge Luis Borges to read to him part-time. (Borges was blind by then.) No doubt his time with Borges was an important episode in one of the world's greatest bibliophile's life and this short work fills in a bit of what that experience was like. A smart incisive book for fans of both Borges and Manguel, and booklovers generally.

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