The Beholder's Eye - A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism (Paperback)

Walt Harrington, a Washington Post reporter and author of two acclaimed books of non-fiction narrative, offers an anthology of first person journalism. Although there is a rule that journalism must be written in the third person, great journalists such as Pyle, Orwell, Agee, Plimpton, and Hunter S. Thompson have all, at one time or another, been characters in their own stories, people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, who were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote. These pieces represent the very best of an increasing trend toward personal narrative: Mike Sager stalking Marlon Brando in the Tahitian jungle; J.R. Moehringer's quest to discover the true identity of an old boxer; Bill Plaschke's story about a woman with cerebral palsy who runs a Los Angeles Dodgers web site nobody reads; Scott Anderson's story of his lifetime of covering war after war, Barbara Ehrenreich's story of her struggle to understand the social and personal meaning of suffering with cancer; Adam Gopnik's story of his relationship with his aging and oblique Freudian psychiatrist, and Harrington's own tale of his family's struggle to persevere.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	August 2005
Editors:	Walt Harrington
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-4224-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides
LSN:	0-8021-4224-9
Barcode:	9780802142245

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