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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... posed to buy , where the bakery was , and finally , as I looked about and saw everything covered with white , where my house had disappeared to ! Not that I was stupid , but my attention was extremely selective . Car fins fascinated me 7.
... posed to buy , where the bakery was , and finally , as I looked about and saw everything covered with white , where my house had disappeared to ! Not that I was stupid , but my attention was extremely selective . Car fins fascinated me 7.
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... finally came to family matters , I relied on my older brother , Hal , to let me know if something important was starting to happen . The girls had already met Willy and seen his jeep . One day after work , Mom had introduced them to her ...
... finally came to family matters , I relied on my older brother , Hal , to let me know if something important was starting to happen . The girls had already met Willy and seen his jeep . One day after work , Mom had introduced them to her ...
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... Finally a look of discouragement comes over his face and he leaves the table . The particular Saturday morning I remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual , my mother called to us out ...
... Finally a look of discouragement comes over his face and he leaves the table . The particular Saturday morning I remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual , my mother called to us out ...
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... finally arrived . Maybe a whole new feeling - life would spring up between us . I would no longer be afraid of him , and he would play ball with me in Prospect Park like the other boys ' fathers , and he would be good to Hal from now on ...
... finally arrived . Maybe a whole new feeling - life would spring up between us . I would no longer be afraid of him , and he would play ball with me in Prospect Park like the other boys ' fathers , and he would be good to Hal from now on ...
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... Finally she said , " I know , cookie , I know you didn't . " The question years later is , Why didn't I do anything ? Why was I such a goody - goody ? Was I good because I chose to be or because I was too timid , too programmed to do ...
... Finally she said , " I know , cookie , I know you didn't . " The question years later is , Why didn't I do anything ? Why was I such a goody - goody ? Was I good because I chose to be or because I was too timid , too programmed to do ...
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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