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Familiarity breeds content : new and selected essays / Joseph Epstein ; with a forward by Christopher Buckley.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.P6527 A6 2024
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3555.P6527 A6 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937-.
- Epstein, Joseph.
- Aging--Anecdotes.
- Aging.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 441 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2024
- Summary:
- America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a "bonfire of his own vanities," his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed "lucky man."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1668009722
- 9781668009727
- OCLC:
- 1384411679
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