Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints - Essays (Paperback)

Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene).
Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, "Survival in Auschwitz"; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband's suicide, dictated the witty and classic "How to Cook a Wolf"; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints" is indispensable reading on the making of art--and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	February 2008
Authors:	Joan Acocella
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	540
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-27576-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-307-27576-0
Barcode:	9780307275769

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