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In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage
by Epstein, Joseph
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0547085745
- ISBN 13
- 9780547085746
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. As New with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition Thus. First Printing. SOFT COVER. 0547085745 . Inscribed by the author on the title page. Publisher's glossy yellow wraps, brown lettering on spine, black and brown lettering on cover. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xxii), 410 pp. Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great Max Bialystock in The Producers — “Look at me now! Look at me now! I’m wearing a cardboard belt!” — the charming essayist Joseph Epstein gives us his largest and most adventurous collection to date. With his signature gifts of sparkling humor and penetrating intelligence, he issues forth as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture. In deeply considered examinations of writers from Paul Valéry to Truman Capote, in incisive take-downs of such cultural pooh-bahs as Harold Bloom and George Steiner, and in personally revealing essays about his father and about his years as a teacher, this remarkable collection from one of America’s best essayists is a book to be savored.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9910
- Title
- In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage
- Author
- Epstein, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- SOFT COVER
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0547085745
- ISBN 13
- 9780547085746
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0547085745, Personal essays, Humor, Non-Fiction;, 1st editions
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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