Brooke Allen: Good Bones | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781966218128 | Good Bones | Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading | Brooke Allen

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Beschreibung

The heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary lives as oeuvres, she excavates the glories of August Strindberg, George Sand, Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Powell, Truman Capote and even the late great diarist Richard Burton (who also did some acting). There are 22 essays in all, drawn from the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Criterion and elsewhere, and Allen offers delight and surprise on every page. If the age of reading isn't yet behind you, get this book in front of you.

"Her prose swaggers with an authority drawn from true learning, and she cracks her snobbery like a whip." - John Freeman, The Wall Street Journal

Über den Autor

Brooke Allen has published two previous essay collections. Her work has appeared in The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. With a PhD from Columbia University, she has taught literature at Bennington College and history of thought in its prison program. She and her husband, the photographer Peter Aaron, have two daughters and live in New York's Hudson Valley.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781966218128
ISBN-10:	1966218125
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Allen, Brooke
Hersteller:	Tivoli Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 133 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Brooke Allen
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.11.2025
Gewicht:	0,334 kg