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Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker
Anthony Lane
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Description for Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker
Hardcover. Very good copy with bright dustwrapper. First UK edition signed by the Author
Nobody's Perfect, the much anticipated collection from The New Yorker critic, brings together a generous selection of Lane's film criticisms, profiles, book reviews, and essays on art and culture. In the manner of Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Tynan, Lane embraces high and low with equal gusto, clearly having a marvelous time. Whether he's writing about T. S. Eliot or Judith Krantz, Alfred Hitchcock or André Gide, to read him-or better yet, to reread him-is to be carried along on a current of passionate declamation and urgent inquiry, wry reflection and penetrating wit. Taken together, these pieces reflect some of the ... Read more
Nobody's Perfect, the much anticipated collection from The New Yorker critic, brings together a generous selection of Lane's film criticisms, profiles, book reviews, and essays on art and culture. In the manner of Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Tynan, Lane embraces high and low with equal gusto, clearly having a marvelous time. Whether he's writing about T. S. Eliot or Judith Krantz, Alfred Hitchcock or André Gide, to read him-or better yet, to reread him-is to be carried along on a current of passionate declamation and urgent inquiry, wry reflection and penetrating wit. Taken together, these pieces reflect some of the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330491822
SKU
KEX0303182
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Ref
99-1
About Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane has been a film critic for the New Yorker since 1993. He lives in London.
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