See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

Moore, Lorrie

ISBN 10: 1524732486 / ISBN 13: 9781524732486

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018

About this Item

8vo, 407 pp., Signed by the author on the title page. Seller Inventory # 083178

Bibliographic Details

Title: See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and...

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year

This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from Stephen Sondheim to Barack Obama. See What Can Be Done is a perfect blend of craft, brains, and a knowing, singular take on life, liberty, and the pursuit of (some kind of) happiness.

About the Author:

LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of the Irish Times International Prize for Literature, a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.