Life Sentences - by Joseph Epstein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In Joseph Epstein's fourth collection of literary essays, he considers the lives and works of 19 writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his well-stocked mind. "The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein"., --"Chicago Tribune".<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed with matchless grace and ease. In <em>Life Sentences</em>, his fourth collection of literary essays, Epstein considers the lives and works of nineteen writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his well-stocked mind. His subjects include Michel de Montaigne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Robert Lowell, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Elizabeth Bishop, Ambrose Bierce, and Philip Larkin. No overarching theory or grinding ideological ax mars these finely nuanced readings of writers who matter; as Epstein writes, What unites this collection of literary essays is the interest of the man who wrote them. And what interests him is excellence in literature.</p><p>Few pleasures in life are as dependable as reading a Joseph Epstein essay. In that sense <em>Life Sentences</em> is another blue-chip public offering.</p>
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