Getting Personal: Selected EssaysHarper Collins, 2004 M11 3 - 416 páginas From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his family, his religion, and his friends. |
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... already forgotten which room it was . Afterward , Mrs. Bobka never used me as her monitor . The school itself was a wreck from Walt Whitman's day , with rotting floorboards , due to be condemned in a year or two ; already the new annex ...
... already forgotten which room it was . Afterward , Mrs. Bobka never used me as her monitor . The school itself was a wreck from Walt Whitman's day , with rotting floorboards , due to be condemned in a year or two ; already the new annex ...
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... already met Willy and seen his jeep . One day after work , Mom had introduced them to her boyfriend and they went for a ride around Brooklyn , all the way to Coney Island . It seemed as though Mom was buying off the girls with this spin ...
... already met Willy and seen his jeep . One day after work , Mom had introduced them to her boyfriend and they went for a ride around Brooklyn , all the way to Coney Island . It seemed as though Mom was buying off the girls with this spin ...
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... already put part of it in his mouth . " No , thank you . " " Go ahead , " he offers , " I'm not hungry anymore . " Still , I can't bring myself to eat it . I stare at the soggy end with regret ; my father doesn't understand what's wrong ...
... already put part of it in his mouth . " No , thank you . " " Go ahead , " he offers , " I'm not hungry anymore . " Still , I can't bring myself to eat it . I stare at the soggy end with regret ; my father doesn't understand what's wrong ...
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... already considerate . " I was flattered that Mom thought I would grow up to be the sort of man she admired . At the same time , I had the feeling that I was being sidetracked and was not advancing Dad's case enough . " But he writes ...
... already considerate . " I was flattered that Mom thought I would grow up to be the sort of man she admired . At the same time , I had the feeling that I was being sidetracked and was not advancing Dad's case enough . " But he writes ...
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... already dinner time . We would walk under the El past the discount stores serv- ing our ghetto in Williamsburg , Brooklyn ; past Stevens Bakery , which specialized in white icing ; past the fish restaurant with its grotesque lobster ...
... already dinner time . We would walk under the El past the discount stores serv- ing our ghetto in Williamsburg , Brooklyn ; past Stevens Bakery , which specialized in white icing ; past the fish restaurant with its grotesque lobster ...
Contenido
XXIV | 167 |
XXV | 187 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVIII | 259 |
XXIX | 261 |
XXX | 278 |
XXXII | 286 |
XXXIII | 300 |
XII | 89 |
XIII | 93 |
XIV | 117 |
XVI | 128 |
XVII | 131 |
XVIII | 140 |
XX | 155 |
XXI | 157 |
XXIII | 165 |
XXXV | 309 |
XXXVI | 314 |
XXXVIII | 323 |
XXXIX | 325 |
XL | 333 |
XLI | 337 |
XLII | 356 |
XLIII | 395 |
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