Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1562790374 ISBN 13: 9781562790370

Publisher: Mercury House, 2000

Synopsis

Presents essays by John Berger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Greil Marcus, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Gore Vidal, and others, that discuss the process of artistic critism

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From Publishers Weekly:

These 30 essays from the Threepenny Review are a rich cornucopia of fresh ideas, experiences and perspectives. Harold Brodkey interprets Jane Austen as the inventor of "an imagined public space" which writers from Flaubert to Whitman have extended. Elizabeth Hardwick presents Gertrude Stein as a forerunner of minimalism. Thom Gunn recalls his friendship with spiritual seeker Christopher Isherwood. Susan Sontag decodes the gestures of Japanese puppet theater. Also here are Leonard Michaels on Rita Hayworth's mythic power, Amy Tan on English as spoken in immigrant families, Christopher Ricks on Bob Dylan's lyrics, plus Gore Vidal, Diane Johnson, John Berger. Especially impressive are Lars Eighner's autobiographical account of being homeless, W. S. DiPiero's lapidary jottings on modern painters, Irene Oppenheim's tangy reminiscence of waitressing in L.A., Greil Marcus's sociopolitical analysis of The Manchurian Candidate , Natalie Kusz's recollection of her near-fatal childhood accident in Alaska. Lesser, who edits Threepenny Review , has assembled an exhilarating miscellany.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mercury House
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1562790374
• ISBN 13: 9781562790370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Lesser Wendy