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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I began as I would go on, reading. By the time I was four, my grandfather had shown me how to do it, mostly by having me follow along as he read to me. I loved dogs, and read many books about them.
#2 I grew up reading the classic children's books, as well as the more recent ones. The key books of my childhood were the twelve novels by Arthur Ransome, beginning with...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe ("genius"), and James Jones, to Leonard Bernstein, Lorenz Hart, Lady Diana Cooper ("the most beautiful girl in the world"), the actor-assassin John Wilkes Booth, the scandalous movie star Mary Astor, and...