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The Professor: A Sentimental Education Paperback - 2011
by Castle, Terry
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Details
- Title The Professor: A Sentimental Education
- Author Castle, Terry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2011-01-04
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0061670928.G
- ISBN 9780061670923 / 0061670928
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Lesbians' writings, American, American essays - Women authors
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010053607
- Dewey Decimal Code 818.54
From the rear cover
From Terry Castle, the brilliant cultural commentator whom Susan Sontag called "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," comes a long-awaited collection of captivating personal essays. The title piece at the heart of the anthology--Castle's candid, wry, and rueful retelling of her romantic involvement with a female professor during graduate school--is a pitch-perfect recollection of the fiascoes of youth. Here, also, are classic Castle short works, including "Desperately Seeking Susan," a droll and bittersweet account of her friendship with Sontag; "My Heroin Christmas," a darkly humorous examination of addiction, her family and stepsiblings, and the late, great saxophonist Art Pepper; and the picaresque "Travels with My Mother," a rollicking tour through lesbianism, art, and the difficult yet transcendent paintings of Agnes Martin.
The Professor is Terry Castle at her best: utterly distinctive, wise, frank, and fearless.