The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism. Above all, it is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries.
- ISBN10 0805061762
- ISBN13 9780805061765
- Publish Date 15 March 1999 (first published 1 January 1920)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 658
- Language English