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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182621503 Title: How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays Author: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn Publisher: New York : Harper, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780061456435 0061456438 OCLC:182621503

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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays

Author:	Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Publisher:	New York : Harper, ©2008.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.
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Genre/Form:	Reviews
Named Person:	Daniel Adam Mendelsohn; Daniel Adam Mendelsohn; Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Daniel Adam Mendelsohn Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780061456435 0061456438
OCLC Number:	182621503
Description:	xix, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction. How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Part one. Heroines. Novel of the year (The lovely bones) -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf (The hours) -- Victims on Broadway I (The glass menagerie) -- Victims on Broadway II (A streetcar named Desire) -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver ) -- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette) -- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met) -- Not an ideal husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- Part two. Heroics. A little Iliad (Troy) -- Alexander, the movie! -- Duty (300) -- It's only a movie (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- Nailed! Dale Peck's Hatchet jobs) -- The way out (Everyman) -- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex) -- Part three. Closets. The passion of Henry James (The Master) -- The two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of being earnest) -- The tale of two Housmans (The Invention of love) -- The Truman Show (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- Winged messages (Angels in America) -- An affair to remember (Brokeback Mountain) -- The man behind the curtain (John Boswell, Same-sex unions in premodern Europe) -- Part four. Theater. The Greek way (Greek tragedies in New York) -- Bitter-sweet (Private lives) -- Double take (The producers) -- Harold Pinter's celebration (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- Part five. War. Theaters of war (Thucydides' History) -- The bad boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway) -- For the birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- September 11 at the movies (World Trade Center and United 93).
Responsibility:	Daniel Mendelsohn.
More information:	Table of contents only

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of "The Lost" and one of America's most esteemed public intellectuals comes a brilliant and engaging display of the critic's works. Read more...

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