How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken - by Daniel Mendelsohn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning, bestselling author of "The Lost" and one of America's most esteemed public intellectuals comes a brilliant and engaging display of the critic's works.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, <em>How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken</em> demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An elegant collection of essays. . . . Mendelsohn reveals intellectual breadth in his ability to draw on his training as a classicist to look at contemporary culture. . . . These essays richly repay the time readers spend in their company."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)<br><br>"Brilliant. . . . Masterful. . . . Wise, funny. . . . A wonderful collection."--Time Out New York<br><br>"Mendelsohn takes on contemporary culture with humor and incisive analysis."--The New York Sun<br>
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