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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... person in every circumstance . ” I took it as a compliment . Of course , I am only a medical man , but I pride myself on being a good judge of literature . I can only second what Susan Sontag has said : " I am astonished that a writer ...
... person in every circumstance . ” I took it as a compliment . Of course , I am only a medical man , but I pride myself on being a good judge of literature . I can only second what Susan Sontag has said : " I am astonished that a writer ...
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... person . Since his strength came from God's spirit inhabiting him , the theological point might have been better made by casting Mickey Rooney or Arnold Stang . ) Yet , by that familiar phenomenon that makes it difficult to picture a ...
... person . Since his strength came from God's spirit inhabiting him , the theological point might have been better made by casting Mickey Rooney or Arnold Stang . ) Yet , by that familiar phenomenon that makes it difficult to picture a ...
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... is family history , it is not always easy to find the beginning of a causal series , which is why the person with the loudest voice or the longest memory is generally able to make the best tit for tat . 30 GETTING PERSONAL -
... is family history , it is not always easy to find the beginning of a causal series , which is why the person with the loudest voice or the longest memory is generally able to make the best tit for tat . 30 GETTING PERSONAL -
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... person with whom you're casually drawn into conversation and the next thing you know three hours -CNN.COM have passed and it's time to part ... His is the voice you listen to . " From the man whose name is virtually synonymous with the ...
... person with whom you're casually drawn into conversation and the next thing you know three hours -CNN.COM have passed and it's time to part ... His is the voice you listen to . " From the man whose name is virtually synonymous with the ...
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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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