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Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays / Joan Acocella.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NX165 .A36 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acocella, Joan Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Psychology.
- Artists.
- Suffering.
- Arts, Modern--20th century.
- Arts, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- 28 artists and 2 saints
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
- Summary:
- Includes essays about Lucia Joyce, writer's block, Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Primo Levi, Joseph Roth, Andrea de Jorio, Mary Magdalene, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, Twyla Tharp, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, M.F.K. Fisher, Saul Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Louise Bourgeois, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Frank O'Hara, Hilary Mantel, and Joan of Arc.
- Notes:
- Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780375424168 (alk. paper)
- 0375424164 (alk. paper)
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