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Twentieth-century Attitudes
Brooke Allen
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Description for Twentieth-century Attitudes
Paperback. In eighteen enlightening essays, the critic Brooke Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH; GT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 331.
In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical information with new critical insights, richly illustrate the tenuous and often bizarre links between character and talent, between historical circumstances and individual vision. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical information with new critical insights, richly illustrate the tenuous and often bizarre links between character and talent, between historical circumstances and individual vision. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635974
SKU
V9781566635974
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99-15
About Brooke Allen
Brooke Allen is a writer and critic whose work appears frequently in the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, the Hudson Review, and the New Leader. She has also written Artistic License, and won the 2003 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Ms. Allen lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews for Twentieth-century Attitudes
She fills her writing with intelligence and equanimity, making her boldness seem really not so wild after all, but the logical conclusion of good sense and an orderly mind.
David Skinner
The Weekly Standard
One of the most valuable critics.... Her reviews of novels and novelists are invariably on the mark and written with grace.
William H. Pritchard Lucid and incisive, fair-minded and fair-spoken...wonderful.... A lively enemy of pomp and cant, conformity and confusion.
Brad Leithauser Allen's byline is a guarantee of crisp, clear common sense.... What a pleasure to read a bookful of her best essays.
Terry Teachout One of the country's finest literary essayists—scrupulous, discerning, utterly direct and at the same time always surprising.
Jane Kramer Smart, witty, remarkably literate, and a talented cultural historian.... Allen offers us new critical insights.
David Nasaw Engrossing...fair-minded essays...nicely edged, combining the right amount of literary criticism with biographical insight and social history.... Unique and enlightening.... Recommended.
Library Journal
A satisfying collection of essays...memorable...accomplishes what all good criticism should.
New York Sun
Readers may feel they have not just read about these authors, but met them for the first time in a long, long while.
John Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
A critic in whom sense decidedly predominates.... Filled with the most high-level, erudite gossip imaginable.
Evelyn Toynton
The New York Times
Enlightening, fun, eminently readable, and wonderfully, woefully politically correct.
Meghan Keane
National Review
Allen has taken a novel approach.
John Linsenmeyer
Greenwich Times
An agreeable mix of biographical background and astute literary judgement with a dash of gossip.... Brooke Allen offers wide-ranging, frequently provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing.
Lorna Williams
The Washington Times
[A] delightful series of essays.
James Panero
Armavirumque
David Skinner
The Weekly Standard
One of the most valuable critics.... Her reviews of novels and novelists are invariably on the mark and written with grace.
William H. Pritchard Lucid and incisive, fair-minded and fair-spoken...wonderful.... A lively enemy of pomp and cant, conformity and confusion.
Brad Leithauser Allen's byline is a guarantee of crisp, clear common sense.... What a pleasure to read a bookful of her best essays.
Terry Teachout One of the country's finest literary essayists—scrupulous, discerning, utterly direct and at the same time always surprising.
Jane Kramer Smart, witty, remarkably literate, and a talented cultural historian.... Allen offers us new critical insights.
David Nasaw Engrossing...fair-minded essays...nicely edged, combining the right amount of literary criticism with biographical insight and social history.... Unique and enlightening.... Recommended.
Library Journal
A satisfying collection of essays...memorable...accomplishes what all good criticism should.
New York Sun
Readers may feel they have not just read about these authors, but met them for the first time in a long, long while.
John Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
A critic in whom sense decidedly predominates.... Filled with the most high-level, erudite gossip imaginable.
Evelyn Toynton
The New York Times
Enlightening, fun, eminently readable, and wonderfully, woefully politically correct.
Meghan Keane
National Review
Allen has taken a novel approach.
John Linsenmeyer
Greenwich Times
An agreeable mix of biographical background and astute literary judgement with a dash of gossip.... Brooke Allen offers wide-ranging, frequently provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing.
Lorna Williams
The Washington Times
[A] delightful series of essays.
James Panero
Armavirumque