The Gatekeeper: A Memoir - Hardcover

Eagleton, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312291221 ISBN 13: 9780312291228

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2002

Synopsis

An Oxford scholar candidly recounts his experiences as an impoverished youth, a convent gatekeeper, a Catholic in Protestant England, a working-class Irish immigrant among the Oxbridge elite, and a Marxist visiting professor in Mormon Utah. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Review

"[A] hilarious and devastating little book."

"Eagleton's style dazzles, illuminates, and connects."

"Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells."

"Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane."

"In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an astute social critic and a sharp-tongued cad."

"Eagleton''s style dazzles, illuminates, and connects."

"Ireland has always provided England with some of its greatest wits. Past ages have seen Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde illuminating English letters; for the last several decades, Oxford, at least, has had Terry Eagleton.A very funny book, with wet-your-pants-laughing passages."

"[A] hilarious and devastating little book."--"The New York Times Book Review""Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells."--"Washington Post Book World""Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane."--"Entertainment Weekly""This superb memoir, which is riotously funny, philosophically illuminating, and raucously satirical, is so filled with good writing that you want to turn immediately to a friend and read whole swatches out loud....Eagleton's style dazzles, illuminates, and connects."--"Providence Journal""Ireland has always provided England with some of its greatest wits. Past ages have seen Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde illuminating English letters; for the last several decades, Oxford, at least, has had Terry Eagleton...A very funny book, with wet-your-pants-laughing passages."--"Booklist" (starred and boxed review)"In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an astute social critic and a sharp-tongued cad."--"Publishers Weekly"

"[A] hilarious and devastating little book."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells."
--"Washington Post Book World"
"Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"This superb memoir, which is riotously funny, philosophically illuminating, and raucously satirical, is so filled with good writing that you want to turn immediately to a friend and read whole swatches out loud....Eagleton's style dazzles, illuminates, and connects."
--"Providence Journal"
"Ireland has always provided England with some of its greatest wits. Past ages have seen Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde illuminating English letters; for the last several decades, Oxford, at least, has had Terry Eagleton...A very funny book, with wet-your-pants-laughing passages."
--"Booklist" (starred and boxed review)
"In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an astute social critic and a sharp-tongued cad."
--"Publishers Weekly"

[A] hilarious and devastating little book. "The New York Times Book Review"

Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells. "Washington Post Book World"
""

Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane. "Entertainment Weekly"

This superb memoir, which is riotously funny, philosophically illuminating, and raucously satirical, is so filled with good writing that you want to turn immediately to a friend and read whole swatches out loud....Eagleton's style dazzles, illuminates, and connects. "Providence Journal"

Ireland has always provided England with some of its greatest wits. Past ages have seen Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde illuminating English letters; for the last several decades, Oxford, at least, has had Terry Eagleton...A very funny book, with wet-your-pants-laughing passages. "Booklist (starred and boxed review)"

In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an astute social critic and a sharp-tongued cad. "Publishers Weekly""

About the Author

Terry Eagleton is the author of, among other books, Literary Theory and The Truth About the Irish. He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film Wittgenstein. He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312291221
• ISBN 13: 9780312291228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178