Getting Personal: Selected EssaysBasic Books, 2008 M11 5 - 416 páginas From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband. Organized in six parts (Childhood; Youth; Early Marriage and Bachelorhood; Teaching and Work; Fiction; Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities; The Style of Middle Age) Getting Personal tells two stories: the development of Lopate's career as a writer and the story of his life. |
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... never begins a sentence with a gerund. Having started many such sentences this way myself, I paid her no heed; besides, archaic diction has always had a perverse appeal for me. I have never set out to exemplify the most uptodate prose ...
... never begins a sentence with a gerund. Having started many such sentences this way myself, I paid her no heed; besides, archaic diction has always had a perverse appeal for me. I have never set out to exemplify the most uptodate prose ...
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... never be a Tolstoy, a Shakespeare, a Thomas Mann. Even Kafka I wouldn't come close to touching. If I worked like a dog all my life I would have written twenty books (so far, I'm up to fourteen) with some nice passages in them that will ...
... never be a Tolstoy, a Shakespeare, a Thomas Mann. Even Kafka I wouldn't come close to touching. If I worked like a dog all my life I would have written twenty books (so far, I'm up to fourteen) with some nice passages in them that will ...
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... never be absolutely sure if you keep denying and insisting. Just then one of her teacher pals came in, the awesome Mrs. McGonigle, who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets. “Do you know what? Phillip here says that he read Victor Hugo's ...
... never be absolutely sure if you keep denying and insisting. Just then one of her teacher pals came in, the awesome Mrs. McGonigle, who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets. “Do you know what? Phillip here says that he read Victor Hugo's ...
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... never received more than distracted frowns from her all year long. But it wasn't enough; she wanted more. She and I would triumph together. I was to be testimony to her special reading program. Now she conceived a new plan: she would ...
... never received more than distracted frowns from her all year long. But it wasn't enough; she wanted more. She and I would triumph together. I was to be testimony to her special reading program. Now she conceived a new plan: she would ...
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... Never mind that his own fingernails were streaked by green ridges of dirt. His dissatisfaction with our appearance signaled to us that for the moment at least we were our mother's children, he wanted nothing to do with us, perhaps had never ...
... Never mind that his own fingernails were streaked by green ridges of dirt. His dissatisfaction with our appearance signaled to us that for the moment at least we were our mother's children, he wanted nothing to do with us, perhaps had never ...
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