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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... Usually he worked the crossword puzzle on the train, but today he was doing a poem. I remember having to memorize a poem for school: “In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candlelight.” I asked Father what a poem really was. He.
... Usually he worked the crossword puzzle on the train, but today he was doing a poem. I remember having to memorize a poem for school: “In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candlelight.” I asked Father what a poem really was. He.
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... night. During the next few days, though she pretended to be indifferent, we could tell the routine was getting to her. You could see her will crumbling. By myself I would have given in long ago, but I stayed close to Hal, because Hal ...
... night. During the next few days, though she pretended to be indifferent, we could tell the routine was getting to her. You could see her will crumbling. By myself I would have given in long ago, but I stayed close to Hal, because Hal ...
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... night. Five nights later, on Friday night, my father returned home. No one said, “How was the Y, Dad?” We allowed him to sink back into the family routine. He was sheepish and, for the most part, silent, and we had had toorecent ...
... night. Five nights later, on Friday night, my father returned home. No one said, “How was the Y, Dad?” We allowed him to sink back into the family routine. He was sheepish and, for the most part, silent, and we had had toorecent ...
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... night, which ended everything to do with Willy. 5. My father was beating my mother. She had come home after midnight and he had lost no time smacking her; then he threw her into their bedroom. She screamed but did not run away. Strange ...
... night, which ended everything to do with Willy. 5. My father was beating my mother. She had come home after midnight and he had lost no time smacking her; then he threw her into their bedroom. She screamed but did not run away. Strange ...
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... night with both a heightened respect for power and a nausea for violence. The peculiar part, though, was that it seemed to me my father's will had been broken, not my mother's, that night. Afterward he acted more defeated, as though the ...
... night with both a heightened respect for power and a nausea for violence. The peculiar part, though, was that it seemed to me my father's will had been broken, not my mother's, that night. Afterward he acted more defeated, as though the ...
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