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How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken : Essays

by Daniel Mendelsohn

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Whether he''s on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn''s judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tar... Read more

Whether he''s on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn''s judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games.

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File size7.9x5.3x1.3inches
Print pages480
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date August 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780061456442
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DANIEL MENDELSOHN is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the...

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