| Let Me Finish Contributor(s): Angell, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 015603218X ISBN-13: 9780156032186 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: PRAISE FOR ROGER ANGELL "ÝRoger Angell¨ discovered early on that there will always be unexpected moments to relish, and nobody helps a reader experience or relive these evergreen epiphanies with more insight."-- The New York Times Book Review "Angell is the best baseball essayist around. His relaxed prose glides across the page with a confident grace that most writers--let alone baseball writers--would kill for." -- Chicago Tribune "Roger Angell is the best baseball writer of our time--maybe ever." -- Newsweek |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life's better moments. |
Contributor Bio(s): Angell, Roger: - ROGER ANGELL joined The New Yorker as a fiction editor in 1962. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books, including Game Time: A Baseball Companion. He lives in New York and Maine. |