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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... happened to her as a teacher for months , even years ! Here was her chance to flaunt a child prodigy in her own classroom before the other teachers . I told the story as passionately as I could , seeing the movie unroll scene by scene ...
... happened to her as a teacher for months , even years ! Here was her chance to flaunt a child prodigy in her own classroom before the other teachers . I told the story as passionately as I could , seeing the movie unroll scene by scene ...
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... I had dreams of toppling P.S. 11 , breaking everything I hated into rubble , like the newsreels of bombed Berlin . ( As it happened , many blocks in Williamsburg already looked that way , torn down Samson and Delilah and the Kids 27 -
... I had dreams of toppling P.S. 11 , breaking everything I hated into rubble , like the newsreels of bombed Berlin . ( As it happened , many blocks in Williamsburg already looked that way , torn down Samson and Delilah and the Kids 27 -
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... flames ; my mother came home in the nick of time and doused the fire with pots of water . When it was over she demanded to know what had happened . My brother and sis- ter pointed fingers at each other . " I didn't 28 GETTING PERSONAL -
... flames ; my mother came home in the nick of time and doused the fire with pots of water . When it was over she demanded to know what had happened . My brother and sis- ter pointed fingers at each other . " I didn't 28 GETTING PERSONAL -
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... happened , Kay was a writer , too , but her work did not get published very often . She would become furious and throw tantrums when she saw my poems in magazines unless I placated her for half an hour about how much better her poems ...
... happened , Kay was a writer , too , but her work did not get published very often . She would become furious and throw tantrums when she saw my poems in magazines unless I placated her for half an hour about how much better her poems ...
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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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