Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints de Joan Acocella

Date de parution : 02.2008
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 560
Résumé : Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella! one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi! Holocaust survivor and chemist! who wrote the classic memoir! Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who! numb with grief over her husband's suicide! dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects! including Dorothy Parker! Mi...