Words and Worlds

From Autobiography to Zippers

Alison Lurie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

225 Seiten

2019
Delphinium Books, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-883285-78-4 (ISBN)

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In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition, the good fortune of forming close relationships with other writers and editors and great thinkers, including Robert Silver of The New York Review of Books, the poet James Merrill, and the illustrator, Edward Gorey. On this fascinating journey, we are amused by her insightful, often delightfully funny meditations on topics such as “deconstruction” and beloved children’s literature series such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, and Babar. Words and Worlds is a crowning reminiscence from a much beloved and celebrated writer.

ALISON LURIE, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Affairs, has published ten novels, five works of non-ﬁction and three books for children. A professor of English Emerita at Cornell University, she died in December, 2020.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2019
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-883285-78-X / 188328578X
ISBN-13	978-1-883285-78-4 / 9781883285784
Zustand	Neuware