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In a Cardboard Belt!
Joseph Epstein
其他書名
Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage
出版Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
主題Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN97806187219310618721932
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AT5usG9E1tkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Joseph Epstein has been called America's "liveliest, most erudite and engaging essayist" (James Atlas), and In a Cardboard Belt! provides ample proof for the claim. Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great Max Bialystock in The Producers -- "Look at me now! Look at me now! I'm wearing a cardboard belt!" -- Epstein gives us his largest and most comprehensive collection to date.
Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, he uses to deft and devastating effect his signature gifts: wide-ranging erudition, sparkling humor, and a penetrating intelligence. In personally revealing essays about his father and about his years as a teacher, in deeply considered examinations of writers from Paul Valery to Truman Capote, and in incisive take-downs of such cultural pooh-bahs as Harold Bloom and George Steiner, this remarkable collection presents us with the best work of our country's most singular talent, engaged with the richness and variety of life, witty in his response to the world, and always entertaining.