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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... keep denying and insisting . Just then one of her teacher pals came in , the awesome Mrs. McGonigle , who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets . " Do you know what ? Phillip here says that he read Victor Hugo's Les Misérables ...
... keep denying and insisting . Just then one of her teacher pals came in , the awesome Mrs. McGonigle , who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets . " Do you know what ? Phillip here says that he read Victor Hugo's Les Misérables ...
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... keep insisting and insisting that we won't go , she would have to give up all this stuff about Willy . " " I don't understand . Why couldn't she just take us , even if we didn't want to go ? " " Because , jerk , she doesn't want us to ...
... keep insisting and insisting that we won't go , she would have to give up all this stuff about Willy . " " I don't understand . Why couldn't she just take us , even if we didn't want to go ? " " Because , jerk , she doesn't want us to ...
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... keep the plan and not give in . Come on , I need you in on it . ” " I'm in on it . But the only thing is won't it hurt Mommy's feelings ? " " So what if it hurts her feelings ! " Hal said fiercely . " That's the whole idea , isn't it ...
... keep the plan and not give in . Come on , I need you in on it . ” " I'm in on it . But the only thing is won't it hurt Mommy's feelings ? " " So what if it hurts her feelings ! " Hal said fiercely . " That's the whole idea , isn't it ...
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... keep this picture sharply in mind whenever my mother appealed to either of us with her hurt , " human " expression . In the evenings , Hal would go to Father and they would have a private talk . I gathered that Father approved of what ...
... keep this picture sharply in mind whenever my mother appealed to either of us with her hurt , " human " expression . In the evenings , Hal would go to Father and they would have a private talk . I gathered that Father approved of what ...
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... keep forgetting that I'm talking to an eight - year - old . It's as if I were speaking to someone older and wiser . You've made me feel a lot better . " I blushed . I had found a new way to make my mother love me . " Baby , promise me ...
... keep forgetting that I'm talking to an eight - year - old . It's as if I were speaking to someone older and wiser . You've made me feel a lot better . " I blushed . I had found a new way to make my mother love me . " Baby , promise me ...
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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