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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... best of my essays , and pointing out that , while the books as a whole do not stand up , because " he never learned to shape his material into an over- arching structure , or to cut , " nevertheless a Introduction xi -
... best of my essays , and pointing out that , while the books as a whole do not stand up , because " he never learned to shape his material into an over- arching structure , or to cut , " nevertheless a Introduction xi -
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... learned soon after , my teacher's name was actually Mrs. Bobka , equally improbable . She wore her red hair rolled under a hairnet and had a glass eye , which I once saw her taking out in a luncheonette and showing to her neighbor ...
... learned soon after , my teacher's name was actually Mrs. Bobka , equally improbable . She wore her red hair rolled under a hairnet and had a glass eye , which I once saw her taking out in a luncheonette and showing to her neighbor ...
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... learned how to show affec- tion . But meanwhile , I'm the one who's paying for what his family did to him ! It's like I've got five children to take care of instead of four , and your father's the most helpless of all . " " He sometimes ...
... learned how to show affec- tion . But meanwhile , I'm the one who's paying for what his family did to him ! It's like I've got five children to take care of instead of four , and your father's the most helpless of all . " " He sometimes ...
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... learned that if you stay very quiet and listen to the confusion of oth- ers and nod from time to time , people will think you understand . They will go away feeling better . Much of what she said sailed over my head , but I understood ...
... learned that if you stay very quiet and listen to the confusion of oth- ers and nod from time to time , people will think you understand . They will go away feeling better . Much of what she said sailed over my head , but I understood ...
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... learned from imitating my mother , always to lay a groundwork of self - righteousness before any explosion . “ I am only doing this to you because you did X and Y to me first . " Within the never - ending chain of injured feelings that ...
... learned from imitating my mother , always to lay a groundwork of self - righteousness before any explosion . “ I am only doing this to you because you did X and Y to me first . " Within the never - ending chain of injured feelings that ...
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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