Essays in Disguise PDF
264 Pages·1990·11.5272 MB·other
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The author's third collection of essays discusses literary figures such as Hemingway and Salinger, fatherhood, Ronald Reagan, television, politics, American humor, the Catholic Church, and other topics
Whether writing on Sinatra or Updike, Hemingway or the Catholic Church, the Mafia or Salinger, Sheed's always-exciting prose style and his uncanny way of extracting the most from his subjects never fail to leave his readers satisfied. His wit, neither Wildean nor aphoristic, does at times become gently biting, especially when considering, say, the intrusion of televised politics into American life. In this, his third collection of reviews, extended essays (many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books ), and occasional pieces, Sheed is in top form. With his novelist's eye for detail and the nuances of language, he lets little escape his attention, or ours, a fact all serious readers must applaud every time they pick up one of Sheed's books.
Whether writing on Sinatra or Updike, Hemingway or the Catholic Church, the Mafia or Salinger, Sheed's always-exciting prose style and his uncanny way of extracting the most from his subjects never fail to leave his readers satisfied. His wit, neither Wildean nor aphoristic, does at times become gently biting, especially when considering, say, the intrusion of televised politics into American life. In this, his third collection of reviews, extended essays (many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books ), and occasional pieces, Sheed is in top form. With his novelist's eye for detail and the nuances of language, he lets little escape his attention, or ours, a fact all serious readers must applaud every time they pick up one of Sheed's books.
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