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- Publication Name
- Random House Publishing Group
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385525893
ISBN-13
9780385525893
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102759144
Product Key Features
Book Title
Book of Days : Personal Essays
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, Essays
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-005889
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The best of these ten essays combine the details of memory with reflective insight and a command of tone that resists cliché, while refusing to settle into simplistic understanding. … Whether she's explaining her affinity for Kafka or exploring the tribal rituals of faculty wives-her husband is a professor, as her father was-Gordon writes with flinty humor, unsentimental precision and a refusal to let herself or anyone else off too easily." - Kirkus "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." -Daphne Merkin "In one of this book's fine essays, Emily Fox Gordon observes drily that calling oneself a born personal essayist is like calling oneself a born éminence grise. Maybe so-but if there were ever a writer born to this genre, it's Gordon, who can simultaneously strip herself bare and turn an unforgettable phrase." -Anne Fadiman "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." -The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence-a critical eye, a complex wit-with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." -Rosellen Brown, "The best of these ten essays combine the details of memory with reflective insight and a command of tone that resists clich, while refusing to settle into simplistic understanding. ... Whether she's explaining her affinity for Kafka or exploring the tribal rituals of faculty wives--her husband is a professor, as her father was--Gordon writes with flinty humor, unsentimental precision and a refusal to let herself or anyone else off too easily." -- Kirkus "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." --Daphne Merkin "In one of this book's fine essays, Emily Fox Gordon observes drily that calling oneself a born personal essayist is like calling oneself a born minence grise. Maybe so--but if there were ever a writer born to this genre, it's Gordon, who can simultaneously strip herself bare and turn an unforgettable phrase." --Anne Fadiman "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." --The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence--a critical eye, a complex wit--with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." --Rosellen Brown, "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." -Daphne Merkin "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." -The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence-a critical eye, a complex wit-with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." -Rosellen Brown, "The best of these ten essays combine the details of memory with reflective insight and a command of tone that resists clichÉ, while refusing to settle into simplistic understanding. … Whether she's explaining her affinity for Kafka or exploring the tribal rituals of faculty wives-her husband is a professor, as her father was-Gordon writes with flinty humor, unsentimental precision and a refusal to let herself or anyone else off too easily." -Kirkus "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." -Daphne Merkin "In one of this book's fine essays, Emily Fox Gordon observes drily that calling oneself a born personal essayist is like calling oneself a born Éminence grise. Maybe so-but if there were ever a writer born to this genre, it's Gordon, who can simultaneously strip herself bare and turn an unforgettable phrase." -Anne Fadiman "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." -The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence-a critical eye, a complex wit-with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." -Rosellen Brown, "The best of these ten essays combine the details of memory with reflective insight and a command of tone that resists cliché, while refusing to settle into simplistic understanding. ... Whether she's explaining her affinity for Kafka or exploring the tribal rituals of faculty wives--her husband is a professor, as her father was--Gordon writes with flinty humor, unsentimental precision and a refusal to let herself or anyone else off too easily." -- Kirkus "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." --Daphne Merkin "In one of this book's fine essays, Emily Fox Gordon observes drily that calling oneself a born personal essayist is like calling oneself a born éminence grise. Maybe so--but if there were ever a writer born to this genre, it's Gordon, who can simultaneously strip herself bare and turn an unforgettable phrase." --Anne Fadiman "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." --The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence--a critical eye, a complex wit--with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." --Rosellen Brown, "The best of these ten essays combine the details of memory with reflective insight and a command of tone that resists cliché, while refusing to settle into simplistic understanding. ... Whether she's explaining her affinity for Kafka or exploring the tribal rituals of faculty wives--her husband is a professor, as her father was--Gordon writes with flinty humor, unsentimental precision and a refusal to let herself or anyone else off too easily." -- Kirkus "Emily Fox Gordon's essays make me want to curl up inside them and keep on reading for as long as I can. She writes with candor, wit, and insight about common and uncommon occurrences, whether it be her husband's colonoscopy or her decades-long therapy experience. Her ability to sound out the truth about the coded world of academe or the pleasure to be found in long-running marriages makes her a bracing and welcome guide through the thickets of contemporary life." --Daphne Merkin "In one of this book's fine essays, Emily Fox Gordon observes drily that calling oneself a born personal essayist is like calling oneself a born éminence grise. Maybe so--but if there were ever a writer born to this genre, it's Gordon, who can simultaneously strip herself bare and turn an unforgettable phrase." --Anne Fadiman "Good writing is itself a moral virtue. Wit, complexity, and detail are its outward signs, and [Gordon's work] shines with them." --The New Yorker "Emily Fox Gordon's writing combines remarkable intelligence--a critical eye, a complex wit--with extraordinary candor and vulnerability." --Rosellen Brown
Dewey Decimal
814.6
Synopsis
The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon's disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves--reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through "the unevolved paradise" of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka--in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.
LC Classification Number
PS3607.O5936B66 2010
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