A History of BooksThe major work of fiction in this collection, A History of Books, explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty nine sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image in the writer's mind. The memory of the books themselves might have faded, but the images remain in their clarity and import scenes of discord and madness, a stern faced man, a young woman on a swing, a glass of beer and rays of sunlight,