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Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays by Joan Acocella The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism becomes a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times, "Hers is a vision that allows art its mystery but not its pretensions, to which she is acutely sensitive. What better instincts could a critic have?"Book Reports gathers twenty-four essays from the past decade and a half of Acocellas career, as well as an introduction that frames her simple preoccupations, "Life and Art." In agile, inspired prose, the New Yorker staff writer moves from J. R. R. Tolkiens translation of Beowulf to the life of Richard Pryor, from surveying profanity to untangling the book of Job. Her appetite (and reading list) knows no bounds. This collection is a joy and a revelation, a library in itself, and Acocella our dream companion among its shelves. Author Biography Joan Acocella has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. She served as the magazines dance critic from 1998 to 2019. Her books include Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and, most recently, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays. She coedited André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties and edited The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the New York Book Critics Circle. She lives in New York. Review "One of the best-read, most laconic and least pretentious cultural critics of her generation, from whom we are lucky to have this final volume of collected essays . . . Some critics are haters, but Acocella began writing criticism because she loved--first dance, and then much of the best of Western culture. She let life bring her closer to art . . . I cant help feeling we didnt appreciate Acocella enough when we had her. We thought she would always be there--and at least on our shelf she can be." --Joanna Biggs, The New York Times Book Review "Bringing together some of her smartest and most entertaining pieces on literature and language published between 2007 and 2021, the volume must now serve as a makeshift monument to Acocellas career . . . The books 24 pieces offer not just an inventory of Acocellas interests but also shining examples of what made her such a pleasure to read." --Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times "As this posthumous collection shows, [Acocella] brought the same rigor, passion and insight to all the art she consumed. Whether her subject is genre fiction, "Beowulf" or Marilynne Robinson, Acocellas knowledge and enthusiasm are hard to match. We will not see her like again." --The New York Times (Editors Choice) "There seems to be no subject that Acocella didnt embrace . . . in an era when the words artificial and intelligence are paired without irony, there once existed a writer named Joan Acocella whose life of the mind was as incandescent as it was real." --Patricia Schultheis, Washington Independent Review of Books "Essayist Acocella shines in this splendid anthology of literary criticism . . . Smart and accessible, this is a blast." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "From Gilgamesh and Beowulf to Elmore Leonard and Richard Pryor, a brilliant critic unpacks centuries of artists and their works . . . [Acocellas ] wit and insight make anything worth reading about . . . A top-notch collection full of information, elegance, and humor." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "There are a handful of perfect foods, like yuba, which possess all the essential nutrients (Buddhist monks took it on their pilgrimages.) Rarer, perhaps, are perfect mind foods, like The Bloody Nightgown, whose essential nutrients--wit, depth, variety, beauty, humanity--could sustain you even on a desert island. With each rereading, these essays surprise and reward you anew." --Judith Thurman, author of A Left-Handed Woman "Joan Acocella has always been one of our countrys sharpest critics. She manages to write at the highest intellectual level and make it read like fun. This collection is endlessly entertaining. It also grapples with the central issues of art, literature and life." --T. M. Luhrmann, author of How God Becomes Real Promotional The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection. Details ISBN0374608091 Author Joan Acocella Short Title Book Reports Language English ISBN-10 0374608091 ISBN-13 9780374608095 Format Hardcover Year 2024 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-02-20 Pages 368 DEWEY 814.6 Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2024-03-18 Subtitle And Other Essays US Release Date 2024-03-18 NZ Release Date 2024-07-08 AU Release Date 2024-07-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161069545;

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