Let Me Finish
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Let Me Finish

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Let Me Finish

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Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."— The Boston Globe For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small—from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini. Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Game, "one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his…generation" ( Time ).
"A lovely book and an honest one…about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It's also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age."— The Washington Post

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2007
ISBN
9780547541372
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Biografías de ciencias sociales

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Introduction
  5. Romance
  6. Movie Kid
  7. The King of the Forest
  8. Twice Christmas
  9. Early Innings
  10. Consultation
  11. We Are Fam-ilee
  12. Andy
  13. Getting There
  14. Dry Martini
  15. Permanent Party
  16. Ancient Mariner
  17. La Vie en Rose
  18. At the Comic Weekly
  19. Here Below
  20. Jake
  21. Hard Lines
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. About the Author
  24. Connect with HMH