| Fame & Folly: Essays (Pen Literary Award Winner) Contributor(s): Ozick, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679767541 ISBN-13: 9780679767541 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: Why do so many brilliant writers turn out to be anything but brilliant in their personal conduct? From Henry James to Salman Rushdie, from Anthony Tollope to Mark Twain, author Cynthia Ozick looks at our literary idols and reveals not feet of clay, but flawed and beating hearts, and in so doing inspires us to a fresh admiration of their achievements. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 95044429 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.23" W x 8.01" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private domains is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T. S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie, and Henry James. A genuine literary education. . . . Each of these pieces is informed, gracefully written and propelled with narrative energy.--San Francisco Chronicle A glittering new collection. . . . Each essay shimmers with intelligence.--The New York Times |