Let Me Finish
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 015603218X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book’s centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell’s disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life’s better moments.
It's the family drama that's of most immediate interest, as Angell recalls the divorce of his parents, Ernest and Katherine Angell, and his mother's subsequent remarriage to E.B. Somerset Maugham while vacationing in France in 1949). The assembled pieces add up to a fine memoir. (May 8)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Perelman paid to W. Or perhaps readers will be more eager to hear about life at the New Yorker, especially since Angell admits, "I no longer expect to write" much more about his fellow writers and editors than the miniature portraits collected here (but thankfully we do have such scenes as the visit he
Great story of a writer working as an editor in the New Yorker magazine. Frank Hopkins Enjoyable look at a writer's career at the New Yorker magazine. The narrative brings back many memories of growing up in New York. I highly recommend the book to those who are interested in reading about the life of writers.. "Love Let Me Finish" according to Nancy Wright. Love it and am still reading parts of it, would buy it all over again.. ""Hard Lines" softened in the telling; a warm wonderful memoir" according to Timothy J. Bazzett. Roger Angell, at 88, is a lucky man. He thinks so himself. He's survived his knocks, his various unhapinesses - divorced parents, a divorce of his own, friends gone but not forgotten - and he appreciates what he has now, as well as what life has dealt him along the way. "Hard lines" is a phrase recalled from his college days, a shouted or whispered expression that could mean anything from "Buck up," or "Get over it, to "I'm so very sorry." Another reviewer noted he was glad that Angell spent more time talking about his childhood