Familiarity breeds content : new and selected essays /
America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a "bonfire of his own va...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
[2024].
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| Summary: | America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a "bonfire of his own vanities," his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed "lucky man." |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 441 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1668009722 9781668009727 |