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Getting Personal : Selected Essays by Phillip Lopate is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Getting Personal : Selected Essays about?
From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband. Organized in six parts (Childhood; Youth; Early Marriage and Bachelorhood; Teaching and Work; Fiction; Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities; The Style of Middle Age) Getting Personal tells two stories: the development of Lopate's career as a writer and the story of his life.
Who reads Getting Personal : Selected Essays?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Phillip Lopate
- Publisher
- New York: Basic Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786729784
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (96 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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