
Words and Worlds
From Autobiography to Zippers
Alison Lurie(Author)
Delphinium Books, Inc (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
225 pages
978-1-883285-88-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition, the good fortune of forming close relationships with other writers and editors and great thinkers, including Robert Silver of The New York Review of Books, the poet James Merrill, and the illustrator, Edward Gorey. On this fascinating journey, we are amused by her insightful, often delightfully funny meditations on topics such as "deconstruction" and beloved children's literature series such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, and Babar. Words and Worlds is a crowning reminiscence from a much beloved and celebrated writer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-883285-88-3 (9781883285883)
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05/2019
Delphinium Books
€12.49
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Person
ALISON LURIE, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Affairs, has published ten novels, five works of non-?ction and three books for children. A professor of English Emerita at Cornell University, she died in December, 2020.