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"For some time now, the best book critic in America has been Michael Dirda."-Michael M. Thomas, New York Observer
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Michael Dirda, who won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism at the Washington Post Book World, is the author of An Open Book, Bound to Please , and Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Produktdetails
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Seitenzahl: 232
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 310g
- ISBN-13: 9780393324891
- ISBN-10: 0393324893
- Artikelnr.: 22167673
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Michael Dirda is a superb literary essayist, and "Readings" should provide deep delight for discerning readers. --Harold Bloom
There is no repertory of quoted authors or works at the end of this collection of literary essays, and for a good reason: there are hundreds of names in these 216 tight-packed pages.
Dirda , Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of the Washington Post, has the gift of saying a lot with a few well-selected …
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There is no repertory of quoted authors or works at the end of this collection of literary essays, and for a good reason: there are hundreds of names in these 216 tight-packed pages.
Dirda , Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of the Washington Post, has the gift of saying a lot with a few well-selected words. Although a professional of great learning, he comes along in a light-hearted, pleasurable manner and with a total lack of pretence, and sheds a light on every author or work he visits.
Some of them you will never have heard of, for this is a book-lover writing for other book-lovers, always on the lookout for hidden or neglected or forgotten treasures.
His style is so charming, witty and playful despite the erudition that I read on even where I was not really concerned by the subject (science fiction, for example). The subtitle "Literary Entertainments" is just right. Read him for pleasure, the information comes along unobtrusively.
My favourite piece is an astonishing, very personal list of the 100 most amusing comic works answering to the question: "But have we had fun?" I am going to (re)read them all, and I am going to read more by Michael Dirda.
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