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The Gatekeeper - by Terry Eagleton (Paperback)

The Gatekeeper - by  Terry Eagleton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, <i>The Gatekeeper</i> is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. <i>The Gatekeeper</i> mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[A] hilarious and devastating little book." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells." --<i>Washington Post Book World<br></i> <p/>"Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane." --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p/>"This superb memoir, which is riotously funny, philosophically illuminating, and raucously satirical, is so filled with good writing that you want to turn immediately to a friend and read whole swatches out loud....Eagleton's style dazzles, illuminates, and connects." --<i>Providence Journal</i> <p/>"Ireland has always provided England with some of its greatest wits. Past ages have seen Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde illuminating English letters; for the last several decades, Oxford, at least, has had Terry Eagleton...A very funny book, with wet-your-pants-laughing passages." --<i>Booklist (starred and boxed review)</i> <p/>"In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an astute social critic and a sharp-tongued cad." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Terry Eagleton</b> is the author of, among other books, <i>Literary Theory</i> and <i>The Truth About the Irish</i>. He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film <i>Wittgenstein</i>. He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.</p>

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