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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... remember which . Just three - dot that part . ) On One's Proper Place in the Universe Once , a woman who had started to go out with me decided to do some research . She was a feminist and she wanted to know where to place me on the ...
... remember which . Just three - dot that part . ) On One's Proper Place in the Universe Once , a woman who had started to go out with me decided to do some research . She was a feminist and she wanted to know where to place me on the ...
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... remember is running outside at three o'clock with the others to fill the safety zone in front of the school building , where we whirled around with our bookbags , hitting as many proximate bodies as possible . The whirling dervishes of ...
... remember is running outside at three o'clock with the others to fill the safety zone in front of the school building , where we whirled around with our bookbags , hitting as many proximate bodies as possible . The whirling dervishes of ...
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... remember the jeep he drove was also a Willys . This car has disappeared from modern life . I am unable even to picture it . But at the time it colored all my thinking about the affair . First , it was described to me as rugged , able to ...
... remember the jeep he drove was also a Willys . This car has disappeared from modern life . I am unable even to picture it . But at the time it colored all my thinking about the affair . First , it was described to me as rugged , able to ...
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... temper , the second because he seemed the butt of everyone's ridicule , almost an untouch- able . I remember , for instance , the incident of the marble cake . We're sitting at the dinner table and eating marble cake Willy - 9.
... temper , the second because he seemed the butt of everyone's ridicule , almost an untouch- able . I remember , for instance , the incident of the marble cake . We're sitting at the dinner table and eating marble cake Willy - 9.
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... remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual , my mother called to us out the win- dow , remembering at the last moment some food to pick up on the way back . This time , though , at the ...
... remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual , my mother called to us out the win- dow , remembering at the last moment some food to pick up on the way back . This time , though , at 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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