Let Me Finish (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."-The Boston Globe
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has...
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has...
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Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."-The Boston Globe
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.
In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini.
Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Game, "one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his…generation" (Time).
"A lovely book and an honest one…about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It's also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age."-The Washington Post
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.
In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini.
Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Game, "one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his…generation" (Time).
"A lovely book and an honest one…about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It's also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age."-The Washington Post
Autoren-Porträt von Roger Angell
Roger Angell (b. 1920) is a celebrated New Yorker writer and editor. First published in the magazine in 1944, he became a fiction editor and regular contributor in 1956; and remains as a senior editor and staff writer. In addition to seven classic books on baseball, which include The Summer Game (1972), Five Seasons (1977), and Season Ticket (1988), he has written works of fiction, humor, and a memoir, Let Me Finish (2006). He edited the short story collection Nothing But You: Love Stories from The New Yorker(1997). In 2011, he was awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Angell lives in New York City.
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- Autor: Roger Angell
- 2017, 320 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0547541376
- ISBN-13: 9780547541372
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2017
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Praise for Roger Angell and Let Me Finish“One of the most entertaining and gracious prose styles of his gracious generation.” —Time
“A lovely book and an honest one . . . it contains truths: about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It’s also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Angell is in a league by himself.” —Chicago Tribune Book world
“A performance we can all be thankful for.” —The Boston Globe
“[Let Me Finish] unfolds like memories do, a single image crystallizing a traumatic event or encapsulating a period of years . . . there is an endearing objectivity and a lingering sense of bemused surprise that so much can be remembered so fondly.” —Booklist (starred review)
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