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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Página 9
... feel a twinge of sympathy for him then . That he should be trapped into working like a dog to clothe and feed us useless kids . Sometimes he would take us to his factory , which he referred to simply as " the Place . " I have to go to ...
... feel a twinge of sympathy for him then . That he should be trapped into working like a dog to clothe and feed us useless kids . Sometimes he would take us to his factory , which he referred to simply as " the Place . " I have to go to ...
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... feel like I'm being torn to pieces ? That's me . A piece here , a piece there . I don't know what's right . I met a man .... And he makes me happy . I know you think of me as an old lady . But I'm only twenty - eight . I got married ...
... feel like I'm being torn to pieces ? That's me . A piece here , a piece there . I don't know what's right . I met a man .... And he makes me happy . I know you think of me as an old lady . But I'm only twenty - eight . I got married ...
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... feeling better . Much of what she said sailed over my head , but I understood the main part : that she was unhappy . In ... feel a lot better . " I blushed . I had found a new way to make my mother love me . " Baby , promise me you'll ...
... feeling better . Much of what she said sailed over my head , but I understood the main part : that she was unhappy . In ... feel a lot better . " I blushed . I had found a new way to make my mother love me . " Baby , promise me you'll ...
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... feel like cooking . Why don't we go across the street and buy some specials . " ( Specials were the fat kosher hot dogs we loved . ) " And pastrami and salami and lots of pickles , sour ones , the kind you like . " " Do you have money ...
... feel like cooking . Why don't we go across the street and buy some specials . " ( Specials were the fat kosher hot dogs we loved . ) " And pastrami and salami and lots of pickles , sour ones , the kind you like . " " Do you have money ...
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... feel a twinge of guilty conscience . But then , I am chroni- cally guilt - ridden about my virtuous side , if you will . " You were always a good boy , " my mother has told me so often . " You I never had to worry about . " Even as a ...
... feel a twinge of guilty conscience . But then , I am chroni- cally guilt - ridden about my virtuous side , if you will . " You were always a good boy , " my mother has told me so often . " You I never had to worry about . " Even as a ...
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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