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1 online resource (392 pages) |
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HALF-TITLE; ALSO BY/BIO; TITLE PAGE; IMPRINT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; FORTY-ONE FALSE STARTS; DEPTH OF FIELD; A HOUSE OF ONE'S OWN; THE WOMAN WHO HATED WOMEN; SALINGER'S CIGARETTES; CAPITALIST PASTORALE; THE GENIUS OF THE GLASS HOUSE; GOOD PICTURES; EDWARD WESTON'S WOMEN; NUDES WITHOUT DESIRE; A GIRL OF THE ZEITGEIST; ADVANCED PLACEMENT; THE NOT RETURNING PART OF IT; WILLIAM SHAWN; JOSEPH MITCHELL; THOUGHTS ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM AN ABANDONED AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
An extraordinary showcase of work from one of the world's greatest essayists. Janet Malcolm, writes David Lehman in the Boston Globe, 'is among the most intellectually provocative of authors, able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight'. In Forty-one False Starts one of the world's great writers of literary non-fiction brings together for the first time essays published over several decades. The pieces, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, reflect Malcolm's preoccupation with arti |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781922148230 |
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1922148237 |
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