The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters - Rilegato

Lesser, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 0375404023 ISBN 13: 9780375404023

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1999

Riassunto

A renowned cultural observer and critic focuses on the intersection of art and experience in an intellectual memoir that describes coming of age in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s, the events that shaped her life, and the influences of film, theater, art, and literature on her life and work. 12,500 first printing. Tour.

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"The Amateur shows Wendy Lesser to be a remarkable and unconventional woman. Perhaps her most remarkable and unconventional feat is to have written an autobiography that is neither an exercise in self- aggrandizement nor in self-embarrassment, but is a work of arresting--almost shocking--modesty and restraint. In addition, it is consistently interesting and surprising."
--Janet Malcolm, author of The Crime of Sheila McGough

"The Amateur delights the reader with an independence of mind that has almost passed from our cultural scene. In each entry of this stunning work, she displays a spirit set free of received opinion to contemplate her world of art, dance, movies, politics, and family. With great vitality, Lesser brings her appetite for life into an accounting of her works and days like no other contemporary authobiography."
--Maureen Howard

L'autore:

Wendy Lesser is the author of four previous books; her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997 she received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and son.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375404023
• ISBN 13: 9780375404023
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274