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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... night / And dress by yellow candlelight . " I asked Father what a poem really was . He said it was an expression of feeling , with certain rules that you had to follow . I sat quietly beside him and watched him composing . At one point ...
... night / And dress by yellow candlelight . " I asked Father what a poem really was . He said it was an expression of feeling , with certain rules that you had to follow . I sat quietly beside him and watched him composing . At one point ...
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... night . During the next few days , though she pre- tended to be indifferent , we could tell the routine was getting to her . You could see her will crumbling . By myself I would have given in long ago , but I stayed close to Hal ...
... night . During the next few days , though she pre- tended to be indifferent , we could tell the routine was getting to her . You could see her will crumbling . By myself I would have given in long ago , but I stayed close to Hal ...
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... night . Five nights later , on Friday night , my father returned home . No one said , " How was the Y , Dad ? " We allowed him to sink back into the family routine . He was sheepish and , for the most part , silent , and we had had too ...
... night . Five nights later , on Friday night , my father returned home . No one said , " How was the Y , Dad ? " We allowed him to sink back into the family routine . He was sheepish and , for the most part , silent , and we had had too ...
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... night with both a heightened respect for power and a nausea for violence . The pecu- liar part , though , was that it seemed to me my father's will had been broken , not my mother's , that night . Afterward he acted more defeated , as ...
... night with both a heightened respect for power and a nausea for violence . The pecu- liar part , though , was that it seemed to me my father's will had been broken , not my mother's , that night . Afterward he acted more defeated , as ...
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... night like Scheherazade . As I grew older I began to concoct more subtle revenge fantasies , sometimes even letting my prisoner go . Curiously , this reprieve gave me a greater frisson : I enjoyed the idea of playing cat and mouse with ...
... night like Scheherazade . As I grew older I began to concoct more subtle revenge fantasies , sometimes even letting my prisoner go . Curiously , this reprieve gave me a greater frisson : I enjoyed the idea of playing cat and mouse with ...
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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