Let Me Finish

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2007

ISBN-13: 9780547541372

<DIV><B>Essays from the award-winning <I>New Yorker</I> writer and author of <I>This Old Man</I>: </B><B>&ldquo;Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and&hellip;heartbreaking.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The Boston Globe</I></B><BR /> For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for <I>The New Yorker</I>, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay&mdash;sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In <I>Let Me Finish</I>, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small&mdash;from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author of <I>The Summer Game</I>, &ldquo;one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his&hellip;generation&rdquo; (<I>Time</I>)<I>.</I><BR /> &ldquo;A lovely book and an honest one&hellip;about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It&#39;s also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The Washington Post</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV>