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- 314pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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"A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm" (Newsday) that recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father—from the acclaimed author of The Duke of Deception. In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff shows us his wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases—presided over by his con-man father—then shifts to his brash, short-lived teaching career in Istanbul. With dazzling literary agility, Wolff guides us through the surprising, invaluable turns that shaped his path: his victory over the chaos of drink, his open-heart surgery, his life-affirming surrender to the slopes of the Matterhorn, and his transcendent love of family. Long considered a classic, now expanded and back in print after two decades, A Day at the Beach shares Wolff's spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life.
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A Day at the Beach: Recollections, Geoffrey Wolff
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2013
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- (In brossura)
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Geoffrey Wolff
- Editore
- Vintage
- Pubblicato
- 2013
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 314
- ISBN10
- 0804170096
- ISBN13
- 9780804170093
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Storie vere, Biografie, Autobiografie e memorie, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Scrittura
- Valutazione
- 3,55 su 5
- Descrizione
- "A memoir of uncommon grace and self-deprecating charm" (Newsday) that recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father—from the acclaimed author of The Duke of Deception. In this essay collection, Geoffrey Wolff shows us his wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases—presided over by his con-man father—then shifts to his brash, short-lived teaching career in Istanbul. With dazzling literary agility, Wolff guides us through the surprising, invaluable turns that shaped his path: his victory over the chaos of drink, his open-heart surgery, his life-affirming surrender to the slopes of the Matterhorn, and his transcendent love of family. Long considered a classic, now expanded and back in print after two decades, A Day at the Beach shares Wolff's spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life.