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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... understanding and polite with them while not making a pass - my sexual lack of interest had been misinterpreted as raised consciousness . On the other hand , I was pleased that they thought me all right . Her report from the men she had ...
... understanding and polite with them while not making a pass - my sexual lack of interest had been misinterpreted as raised consciousness . On the other hand , I was pleased that they thought me all right . Her report from the men she had ...
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... understand , by turning dangerously pale , that I had had enough excite- ment for the day . Everyone knows that those who are capable of great mental feats are also susceptible to faints and dizzy spells . Insensitive as she was , she ...
... understand , by turning dangerously pale , that I had had enough excite- ment for the day . Everyone knows that those who are capable of great mental feats are also susceptible to faints and dizzy spells . Insensitive as she was , she ...
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... understand for their humorous effect . It was our mother who would say the really important things , like " I want a quart of milk and some bread and bring back change " statements to which you had to pay attention . My father drifted ...
... understand for their humorous effect . It was our mother who would say the really important things , like " I want a quart of milk and some bread and bring back change " statements to which you had to pay attention . My father drifted ...
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... understand what's wrong . Finally a look of discouragement comes over his face and he leaves the table . The particular Saturday morning I remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual ...
... understand what's wrong . Finally a look of discouragement comes over his face and he leaves the table . The particular Saturday morning I remember , we did not go to my father's fac- tory . No , it was the Brooklyn Museum . As usual ...
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... understanding . Looking over my father's shoulder , I read the first stanza : Once in an antique time you seemed to love me , Your quivering flesh I circled in my arms ; You panted out your gratitude - remember ? Such amorousness was ...
... understanding . Looking over my father's shoulder , I read the first stanza : Once in an antique time you seemed to love me , Your quivering flesh I circled in my arms ; You panted out your gratitude - remember ? Such amorousness was ...
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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