Life Stories: Profiles from New York - Hardcover

Remnick, David

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ISBN 10: 0375503552 ISBN 13: 9780375503559

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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An anthology of biographical profiles from The New Yorker covers some of the most influencial and infamous people of the century, from Ernest Hemingway and Legs Diamond to Adolf HItler and Edith Wharton. Simultaneous.

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purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully--and more originally and more surprisingly--than any other modern American journal.

Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the twenties and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age. These literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, are unrivaled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity.

To help mark the occasion of The New Yorker's seventy-fifth anniversary, Life Stories puts into one volume, for the first time, some of the most outstanding examples of this exemplary tradition. Here you will find Wolcott Gibbs o

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503552
• ISBN 13: 9780375503559
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Remnick David