Screen LibraryUnknown masterpieces : writers rediscover literature's hidden classics /
In this original collection, a number of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrison celebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprising revelation transforms our image o...
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New York Review Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : [Berkeley, CA] : |
| Publication Dates: | [2003] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Review Books classics
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In this original collection, a number of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrison celebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprising revelation transforms our image of Africa, while Susan Sontag raises the curtain on a distant summer when three of the greatest poets of the twentieth century exchanged love letters like no others. Here, too, John Updike analyzes the rare art of an English comic genius, Jonathan Lethem considers a hard-boiled and heartbreaking story of prison life, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be the finest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include such noted authors as Arthur C. Danto, Lydia Davis, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francine Prose, Luc Sante, Colm Toibin, Eliot Weinberger, and James Wood. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 157 pages ; 21 cm. |
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9781590170779 1590170776 |
| Index Number: | PN761 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/U589 |
| Contents: | Eliot Weinberger on Hindoo holiday by J.R. Ackerley -- Arthur C. Danto on The unknown masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac -- John Updike on Seven men by Max Beerbohm -- Jonathan Lethem on On the yard by Malcolm Braly -- Toni Morrison on The radiance of the king by Camara Laye -- Colm Toibin on The go-between by L.P. Hartley -- Francine Prose on A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes -- Susan Sontag on Letters, summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Luc Sante on Classic crimes by William Roughead -- James Wood on The Golovlyov family by Shchedrin -- Elizabeth Hardwick on The unpossessed by Tess Slesinger -- Lydia Davis on The life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal -- Michael Cunningham on The pilgrim hawk by Glenway Wescott. |