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Mr. Apology and Other Essays by Alec Wilkinson: Used
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2003-10-14
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN
- 9780618123117
- Book Title
- Mr. Apology : and Other Essays
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- Essays
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Mr. Apology and Other Essays is a miscellany of misfits, cranks, daredevils, nuts, eccentrics, and lone wolves. From a piece on a Romanian cab driver who intends to cross the Bering Strait in his taxi to a celebration of two renowned hockey fighters, from Ry Cooder's collaboration with Cuban musicians in 1996 (which resulted in the celebrated Buena Vista Social Club) to a behind-the-scenes look at a Rolling Stones dinner party in 1983, Wilkinson brings to these pieces an intelligence and compassion that taps our deepest sense of humanity. The breadth of these essays is rare; with the same sensitivity and insight, Wilkinson explores Paul Simon's writer's block as well as the puzzling epidemic of blindness that afflicted 150 Cambodian women, refugees from the Khmer Rouge. In the title piece, Wilkinson describes the experience of a New York City artist who invites people to call and leave an apology -- any kind of apology, for anything -- on his answering machine. When one caller seems to divulge a deadly secret, the line becomes a complicated vehicle for both confession and delusion. Alec Wilkinson's place in American writing, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, is among "the first rank of literary journalists . . . One is reminded of Naipaul, Mailer, and Agee." Entertaining, revelatory, and exemplary in their craftsmanship, these are essays to ponder, to learn from, to be appalled and inspired by. Mr. Apology displays the art of the essay at its finest.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618123113
ISBN-13
9780618123117
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2360426
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mr. Apology : and Other Essays
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Essays
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ac8.W597 2003
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
[Mr. Apology] crystallizes three aspects of Wilkinson's talent. . .vivid descriptions of the settings in which he conducts his interviews, keen psychological insight and an intuitive sense of when to step back and let his subjects speak for themselves., "A deft and memorable collection with both focus and elbow room from a class act in the world of magazine journalism." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "[Mr. Apology] crystallizes three aspects of Wilkinson's talent. . .vivid descriptions of the settings in which he conducts his interviews, keen psychological insight and an intuitive sense of when to step back and let his subjects speak for themselves." Publishers Weekly
Table of Content
ContentsPart One Cameos 3 Dependents 23 Elmore's Legs 38 Perfect 48 Spy 66 One Green Dog 77 Bruisers 93 Another Green Dog 101 Ms. Ramos 114 Sophie's Guernica 126 The Gift 137 Facing the Shooter 160Part Two An American Original 181 Fatherhood 193 At Home Outside the World 206 My Mentor 216Part Three Mr. Apology 225 Conversations with a Killer 245 The Archive of Stopped Time 280 A Changed Version of God 292 The Enormous Monitor 327
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-047837
Dewey Decimal
081
Dewey Edition
21
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