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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... Bachelorhood : Tales of the Metropolis Being with Children Novels The Rug Merchant Confessions of Summer Poetry The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open The Daily Round - Copyright © 2003 by Phillip Lopate All rights reserved.
... Bachelorhood : Tales of the Metropolis Being with Children Novels The Rug Merchant Confessions of Summer Poetry The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open The Daily Round - Copyright © 2003 by Phillip Lopate All rights reserved.
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... stayed home sick , and my mother had to write a letter of excuse to the teacher , she asked me what her name was and I said I did not know . " You must know what your teacher's name is . " I took a stab at it . " Mrs. . . . Latka ? " I ...
... stayed home sick , and my mother had to write a letter of excuse to the teacher , she asked me what her name was and I said I did not know . " You must know what your teacher's name is . " I took a stab at it . " Mrs. . . . Latka ? " I ...
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... stay still if you don't tell me what Daddy said . ” " Okay , okay . You're the one who kept pestering me to draw you . " " You said you needed people to draw . ” " Just let me finish this . " He worked for a minute longer . When he ...
... stay still if you don't tell me what Daddy said . ” " Okay , okay . You're the one who kept pestering me to draw you . " " You said you needed people to draw . ” " Just let me finish this . " He worked for a minute longer . When he ...
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... stayed close to Hal , because Hal alone had the vision to defy this all - powerful Empress of our childhood . It was not so much that we were afraid of her . No , what took vision was to defy someone who had been so good to us . Mama ...
... stayed close to Hal , because Hal alone had the vision to defy this all - powerful Empress of our childhood . It was not so much that we were afraid of her . No , what took vision was to defy someone who had been so good to us . Mama ...
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... stayed after school for Art Club , Leah was at nursery school , and Molly was running through the streets with her band of friends , boys who played hooky from school . I took out my pack of warplane cards . I slipped the rubber band ...
... stayed after school for Art Club , Leah was at nursery school , and Molly was running through the streets with her band of friends , boys who played hooky from school . I took out my pack of warplane cards . I slipped the rubber band ...
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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