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- catalog abstract "Over the last twenty years Joseph Epstein has published more than eighty familiar essays. Taken together, these essays constitute a continuing autobiography. Although the tone in this collection, his fifth - which owes its title to T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"--Is still highly amused, these new essays also strike a chord that's slightly elegiac. Offering reflections on his increased maturity both as a writer and as a man, Epstein admits to feeling more and more on the periphery of contemporary life - "Nicely Out of It," and not at all minding this. "Decline and Blumenthal" is his take on the endemic slippage of standards in all realms of life. In "Here to Buy Mink," he conveys his love and admiration for the remarkable woman who was his mother. Other essays deal with the pleasures of middle age, of music and cats and telling anecdotes, of the psychological and social complexities of car ownership, of the oddities and ambiguities of male hair. Urbane yet regularly amazed, ironic yet happily candid, Epstein's essays have long been compared to the conversation of an intelligent friend whose wit takes surprising turns of seriousness. Epstein is one of those writers whose humor, at bottom, is serious.".
- catalog contributor b7581037.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Livestock -- Ignorant man's guide to serious music -- Bonfire of my vanities -- Knocking on three, Winston -- Merely anecdotal -- Time on my hands, me in my arms -- Toys in my attic -- Whaddya drivin'? -- Hair piece -- Compose yourself -- Such good taste -- Very private person -- Nicely out of it -- Decline and Blumenthal -- Boy N the hood -- Here to buy mink.".
- catalog description "Other essays deal with the pleasures of middle age, of music and cats and telling anecdotes, of the psychological and social complexities of car ownership, of the oddities and ambiguities of male hair. Urbane yet regularly amazed, ironic yet happily candid, Epstein's essays have long been compared to the conversation of an intelligent friend whose wit takes surprising turns of seriousness. Epstein is one of those writers whose humor, at bottom, is serious.".
- catalog description "Over the last twenty years Joseph Epstein has published more than eighty familiar essays. Taken together, these essays constitute a continuing autobiography. Although the tone in this collection, his fifth - which owes its title to T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"--Is still highly amused, these new essays also strike a chord that's slightly elegiac. Offering reflections on his increased maturity both as a writer and as a man, Epstein admits to feeling more and more on the periphery of contemporary life - "Nicely Out of It," and not at all minding this. "Decline and Blumenthal" is his take on the endemic slippage of standards in all realms of life. In "Here to Buy Mink," he conveys his love and admiration for the remarkable woman who was his mother.".
- catalog extent "317 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393037576".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "814/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Essays.".
- catalog subject "PS3555.P6527 W57 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Livestock -- Ignorant man's guide to serious music -- Bonfire of my vanities -- Knocking on three, Winston -- Merely anecdotal -- Time on my hands, me in my arms -- Toys in my attic -- Whaddya drivin'? -- Hair piece -- Compose yourself -- Such good taste -- Very private person -- Nicely out of it -- Decline and Blumenthal -- Boy N the hood -- Here to buy mink.".
- catalog title "With my trousers rolled : familiar essays / by Joseph Epstein.".
- catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".