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Autobiography through books

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March 2012, no. 339

Not Drowning, Reading by Andrew Relph

Fremantle Press, $24.95 pb, 184 pp

Autobiography through books

by
March 2012, no. 339

‘Perhaps,’ Andrew Relph muses, ‘some people love reading but don’t require it.’ Relph is a psychotherapist who grew up in a dysfunctional family in South Africa, with an undiagnosed reading disorder – which he hasn’t exactly overcome. Reading, though vital, is still slow and intense: ‘I read nothing I don’t want to read. I’m like a person with a breathing problem, restricting themselves to oxygen.’

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