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The Osgood Files
by Osgood, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399135693
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135699
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Binghamton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Putnam Adult, 1991. Hardcover with. Very Good. 20x20x20. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Literary Essays; A compilation of one hundred essays, anecdotes, and commentaries by the two-time Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and journalist offers opinions on everything from pollsters to procrastination, as well as offbeat news items and insights, Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly. Most of the pieces in this amusing volume are selected from Osgood's syndicated columns rather than from his better-known discourses on various TV programs. Here he opens on a note of entertaining self-deprecation, detailing his stint filling in for critic Rex Reed on the lecture platform, then proceeds to ponder problems of contemporary language and social matters, such as the odd eagerness of strangers to address us by our first names. There are also charming articles on Osgood's life with his five children, the questionable joys of owning an old house and the obstacles to getting organized. Osgood stresses the difficulty of writing anything that will remain true three hours hence, adding, "The way to extend the embarrassment potential almost indefinitely is to collect the pieces and put them in a book." Not true of this commentator. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Bookseller
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ware831JM058
- Title
- The Osgood Files
- Author
- Osgood, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399135693
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135699
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 20x20x20
- Keywords
- Literary Essays~Encyclopaedias & Re~
- X weight
- 16 oz
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