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 ... women she had asked were not attractive to me ; I had probably been understanding and polite with them while not ...
... 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 ... women she had asked were not attractive to me ; I had probably been understanding and polite with them while not ...
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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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... women in salmon- pink satin gowns , the George Washingtons and Mrs. Martin Van Burens . But we'd come here for Hal's sake . Hal was good at art in school . Though only eleven , he knew he wanted to be a painter . Hal would go right up ...
... women in salmon- pink satin gowns , the George Washingtons and Mrs. Martin Van Burens . But we'd come here for Hal's sake . Hal was good at art in school . Though only eleven , he knew he wanted to be a painter . Hal would go right up ...
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... women bent over their sewing machines , when we realized we had nowhere to go . We hid in the cellar for an hour ... woman , a Delilah . I had seen enough movies Saturday afternoons to know that there was a type of woman who was " bad ...
... women bent over their sewing machines , when we realized we had nowhere to go . We hid in the cellar for an hour ... woman , a Delilah . I had seen enough movies Saturday afternoons to know that there was a type of woman who was " bad ...
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... woman needs -needs tenderness . " Mom looked at me with hungry blue eyes . " He doesn't go out of his way to - do for me . A woman — likes to have a man who has manners . Who will open a door for her occasionally , make a nice ...
... woman needs -needs tenderness . " Mom looked at me with hungry blue eyes . " He doesn't go out of his way to - do for me . A woman — likes to have a man who has manners . Who will open a door for her occasionally , make a nice ...
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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