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The Anchor Essay Annual

The Anchor Essay Annual

Lopate, Phillip

Paperback

Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 0385484135
ISBN13: 9780385484138
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Sep 15 1997
Pages: 436
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.23 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series. Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and exquisite pieces published during the last twelve months. Bringing together materials from both periodicals and books, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 also includes essays never before published, as well as translations from abroad. The result is as rich and unique as it is cosmopolitan.

In her brilliantly frank Revelation, Mary Gaitskill recounts the religious epiphany that changed her life. Hilton Als explores the Negressity of his soul in My Pin-Up. In his dazzling The Laying Off of Desire, Jean Baudrillard sets forth a flamboyant dissection of human sexuality. Hubert Butler ruminates on the stunted life of his handicapped grandchild in Little K. We relive the glories and disappointments of the Borscht Belt in Vivian Gornick's evocative group portrait, The Catskills Remembered. And we ride a rollercoaster of cultural insight in Daniel Harris's A Psychosexual History of the Homosexual Body. As a whole, this superb collection is a heady cocktail indeed.

All of this exciting new work is placed in context with an illuminating introduction from Phillip Lopate, the house authority on the genre and its greatest practitioner (Washington Times). With generous selections from over twenty-five writers from around the world, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 is the first in what is sure to become a series widely anticipated and highly acclaimed, every October, for years to come.

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