英文：Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 精装 16开 共381页

图书标准信息

• 作者 John Leonard 著；Sue Leonard 编
• 出版社 Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
• 出版时间 2012-03
• ISBN 9780670023080
• 定价 288.40元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 400页

【内容简介】

Rightupuntilhisdeathin2008,JohnLeonardwasalioninAmericanletters.Apassionate,erudite,andwide-rangingcritic,hehelpedshapethelandscapeofmodernliterature.Hereviewedthemostcelebratedwritersofhisage—fromKurtVonnegutandJoanDidiontoToniMorrisonandThomasPynchon.HechampionedMorrison’sworksoardentlythatsheinvitedhimtotravelwithhertoStockholmwhensheacceptedherNobelPrize.Healsocontributedmanypiecesontelevision,film,politics,andthemedia,whichcontinuetosurpriseandimpresswiththeirfervorandprescience.
ReadingforMyLifeisamonumentalcollectionofLeonard’smostsignificantwritings—spanningfivedecades—fromhisearliestcolumnsfortheHarvardCrimsontohisfinalessaysforTheNewYorkReviewofBooks.HereareLeonard’sbestwritings—manyneverbeforepublishedinbookform—ontheculturaltouchstonesofageneration,eachpieceatestamenttohissharpwit,fierceintelligence,andlastingloveofthearts.DefinitivereviewsofDorisLessing,VladimirNabokov,MaxineHongKingston,TomWolfe,DonDeLillo,MilanKundera,andPhilipRoth,amongothers,displayhispassionandnearlyencyclopedicknowledgeofliteratureinthesecondhalfofthetwentiethcentury.HisessayonEdSullivanandtheevolutionoftelevisionremainsaclassic.ThroughoutLeonard’sreviewsandessaysisadedicatedpoliticalspirit,pleadingforsocialjustice,advocatingforthewomen’smovement,andforevercallingattentiontowriterswhoseworkchallengedandexcitedhim.
WithanintroductionbyE.L.DoctorowandremembrancesbyLeonard’sfriends,family,andcolleagues,includingGloriaSteinemandVictorNavasky,ReadingforMyLifestandsasalandmarkcollectionfromoneofAmerica’smostbelovedandinfluentialcritics.