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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
524

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Cover of: Twenty-eight artists and two saints
Twenty-eight artists and two saints: essays
2007, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce
Blocked : writer's block
True confessions : Italo Svevo
Quicksand : Stefan Zweig
The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir
Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar
A hard case : Primo Levi
European dreams : Joseph Roth
The neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio
The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene
After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky
Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein
"Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton
American dancer : Jerome Robbins
Second act : Suzanne Farrell
The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov
The flame : Martha Graham
Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse
The bottom line : Twyla Tharp
On the contrary : H.L. Mencken
After the laughs : Dorothy Parker
Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher
Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow
Piecework : Sybille Bedford
The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois
Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald
The hunger artist : Susan Sontag
Counterlives : Philip Roth
Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara
Devil's work : Hilary Mantel
Burned again : Joan of Arc.

Edition Notes

Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Titles
28 artists and 2 saints

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700.92/2, B
Library of Congress
NX165 .A36 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 524 p. :
Number of pages
524

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24739231M
Internet Archive
twentyeightartis00acoc
ISBN 10
0375424164
ISBN 13
9780375424168
LCCN
2006047266
OCLC/WorldCat
70107159

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