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Here at the New Yorker

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#441592-UC27
Titel	Here at the New Yorker
Auteur	Gill, Brendan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Random House
Jaar van uitgave	1975
ISBN10	0394489896
ISBN13	9780394489896
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered white cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	For over sixty years Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as The New Yorker. This affectionate account of the magazine, long known as a home for congenital unemployables, is a celebration of its wards and attendants - William Shawn, Harold Ross's gentle and courtly successor as editor; the incorrigible mischief-maker James Thurber; the two Whites, Katherine and E. B.; John O'Hara, "master of the fancied slight"; and, among a hundred others, Peter Arno, Saul Steinberg, Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, and Pauline Kael. Brendan Gill has known them all, and by virtue of his virtually total recall, keen eye, and impeccable prose, his diverting portraits of these eccentrics in rage and repose are amply supplied with both dimples and warts. ... (Lees verder)Here at The New Yorkernow updated with a new introduction detailing the reigns of Robert Gottlieb and Tina Brown - is a delightful tour of New York's most glorious madhouse.
Pagina's	406
Conditie	Goed — Dust jacket price clipped; name/address-stamp on first free endpaper.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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