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Title Statement | The bloodied nightgown and other essays / Joan Acocella. |
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Author | Acocella, Joan Ross |
Publication | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2024. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 354 pages |
ISBN | 9780374608095 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07100367 |
General Notes | Includes index. |
Summary | The bloodied nightgown and other essays gathers twenty-four essays from the past decade and a half of Acocella's career, as well as an introduction that frames her simple preoccupations, "life and art." In agile, inspired prose, the New Yorker staff writer moves from J. R. R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf to the life of Richard Pryor, from surveying profanity to untangling in the book of Job. Her appetite (and reading list) knows no bounds. This collection is a joy and a revelation, a library in itself, and Acocella our dream companion among its shelves. |
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By Topic | American essays--21st century |
By Genre | Essays |
Literary criticism |