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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... 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 scale of con- sciousness . She asked around town about me at bookstores , parties , asked her ...
... 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 scale of con- sciousness . She asked around town about me at bookstores , parties , asked her ...
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... woman would dish out tomato soup . Every day tomato soup , with a skim . Sometimes , when the basement flooded , we walked across a plank single file to get to the food counter . And that ends my memories from first grade . In the ...
... woman would dish out tomato soup . Every day tomato soup , with a skim . Sometimes , when the basement flooded , we walked across a plank single file to get to the food counter . And that ends my memories from first grade . In the ...
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... woman's objections . Perhaps nothing so exciting had happened to her as a teacher for months , even years ! Here was her chance to flaunt a child prodigy in her own classroom before the other teachers . I told the story as passionately ...
... woman's objections . Perhaps nothing so exciting had happened to her as a teacher for months , even years ! Here was her chance to flaunt a child prodigy in her own classroom before the other teachers . I told the story as passionately ...
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... woman who was a complete bitch and only wanted his paycheck . But now Willy was talking about leaving his wife and taking Mom and us kids to California , driving across the country in his jeep to the land of fruit trees and big defense ...
... woman who was a complete bitch and only wanted his paycheck . But now Willy was talking about leaving his wife and taking Mom and us kids to California , driving across the country in his jeep to the land of fruit trees and big defense ...
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... woman , a Delilah . I had seen enough movies Saturday afternoons to know that there was a type of woman who was " bad . " Oversexed . Went from man to man . It was necessary to keep this picture sharply in mind whenever my mother ...
... woman , a Delilah . I had seen enough movies Saturday afternoons to know that there was a type of woman who was " bad . " Oversexed . Went from man to man . It was necessary to keep this picture sharply in mind whenever my mother ...
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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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