Let Me Finish - Softcover

Angell, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015603218X ISBN 13: 9780156032186

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White.Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life's better moments.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR ROGER ANGELL AND LET ME FINISH

"One of the most entertaining and gracious prose styles of his gracious generation."--TIME

"A lovely book and an honest one . . . it contains truths: about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It's also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age."--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

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"A lovely book and an honest one . . . A genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age." Washington Post Book World

In this acclaimed autobiography, Roger Angell takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. In intimate, funny, and moving portraits, Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell s disarming memoir evokes an attachment to life s better moments.

"Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and in places heartbreaking . . . a performance we can all be thankful for." Boston Globe

"Graceful and garrulous. If ever someone was raised to write and edit, it was Angell." USA Today

ROGER ANGELL began contributing to the New Yorker in 1944 and joined the staff as a fiction editor in 1956. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books and two collections of short stories and humor. He lives in New York and Maine."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 015603218X
• ISBN 13: 9780156032186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320