Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
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- Synopsis
- A collection of personal essays from America&’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America&’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a &“bonfire of his own vanities,&” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed &“lucky man.&”
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 464 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781668009734
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781668009727
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 04/16/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Joseph Epstein
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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