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Life Sentences Literary Essays

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ISBN-10: 0393333396

ISBN-13: 9780393333398

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joseph Epstein

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Further literary writings by the foremost practitioner of the informal essay in our time.Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed with matchless grace and ease. In life Sentences, his fourth collection of literary essays, Epstein considers the lives and works of nineteen writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his wellstocked mind. His subjects include Michel de Montaigne, E Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Robert Lowell, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson,…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.46" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English