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
... look at you with harsh nearsighted eyes , his glasses still on the sofa arm , like a boarder who didn't know where these children came from . Sometimes he made us laugh , tickling us with his long simian arms , or letting the girls comb ...
... look at you with harsh nearsighted eyes , his glasses still on the sofa arm , like a boarder who didn't know where these children came from . Sometimes he made us laugh , tickling us with his long simian arms , or letting the girls comb ...
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... look , like a monkey concentrating on a metal puzzle . Suddenly he picks his nose , rubs the boogie into a green ball , and , in an absentminded manner , rolls it against his forehead . " Stop that , you're such a slob ! " my mother ...
... look , like a monkey concentrating on a metal puzzle . Suddenly he picks his nose , rubs the boogie into a green ball , and , in an absentminded manner , rolls it against his forehead . " Stop that , you're such a slob ! " my mother ...
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... look in on us , and we at them . Intensely real for a second , these strangers presented their solitude in the dim rushing light , leaving behind a single detail : the memory of crossed legs , a grey creased hat . " Which is better ...
... look in on us , and we at them . Intensely real for a second , these strangers presented their solitude in the dim rushing light , leaving behind a single detail : the memory of crossed legs , a grey creased hat . " Which is better ...
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... look like me but it's nice . " " I still have trouble with noses . So do you want to hear my plan ? " " Sure . " " We don't talk to Mommy . Just ignore her . Pretend she's dead . " " What if she yells at us ? " " So ? Let her scream ...
... look like me but it's nice . " " I still have trouble with noses . So do you want to hear my plan ? " " Sure . " " We don't talk to Mommy . Just ignore her . Pretend she's dead . " " What if she yells at us ? " " So ? Let her scream ...
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... look . 3 . On the third afternoon of the pact against our mother , I came home from school to an empty house . Hal had stayed after school for Art Club , Leah was at nursery school , and Molly was running through the streets with her ...
... look . 3 . On the third afternoon of the pact against our mother , I came home from school to an empty house . Hal had stayed after school for Art Club , Leah was at nursery school , and Molly was running through the streets with her ...
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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