| How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays Contributor(s): Mendelsohn, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061456446 ISBN-13: 9780061456442 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: From the award-winning, bestselling author of "The Lost" and one of America's most esteemed public intellectuals comes a brilliant and engaging display of the critic's works. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Performing Arts | Film - Reference |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mendelsohn, Daniel: - Daniel Mendelsohn a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, is the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College. |