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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joan AcocellaPublisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Imprint: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9780374608095ISBN 10: 0374608091 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 18 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews"""From Gilgamesh and Beowulf to Elmore Leonard and Richard Pryor, a brilliant critic unpacks centuries of artists and their works . . . [Acocella's ] wit and insight make anything worth reading about . . . A top-notch collection full of information, elegance, and humor."" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" Author InformationJoan Acocella has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. She served as the magazine's dance critic from 1998 to 2019. Her books include Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and, most recently, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays. She coedited André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties and edited The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the New York Book Critics Circle. She lives in New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |