Life Sentences: Literary Essays

by Joseph Epstein and Epstein Joseph

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Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed with matchless grace and ease. In Life Sentences, his fourth collection of literary essays, Epstein considers the lives and works of nineteen writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his well-stocked mind. His...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393333396

ISBN13:9780393333398

Release Date:January 1980

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:348 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory Essays Essays & Correspondence History & Criticism Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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