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- Educational Level
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- Level
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Kegan Paul International, The Limited
ISBN-10
0231122705
ISBN-13
9780231122702
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1832232
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Publication Name
Listening to the Page : Adventures in Reading and Writing
Language
English
Subject
Writing Skills, Authorship, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-065717
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Despite his several novels and story collections, Alan Cheuse remains best known as the book critic on the public radio show 'All Things Considered.' The essays collected in Listening to the Pageare longer and deeper than his pithy radio reviews and reveal a commitment to reading as a passionate engagement with life." -- Jacob Molyneux, San Francisco Chronicle, The learned, lively, and handsomely crafted essays in this collection revive some neglected authors as varied as the dazzling Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, the magisterial Tom Wolfe (the elder), and the Russian memoirist Lidiya Ginsburg.... [Cheuse's] essays are instructive, his enthusiasm contagious, his views unobjectionable., Despite his several novels and story collections, Alan Cheuse remains best known as the book critic on the public radio show 'All Things Considered.' The essays collected in Listening to the Page are longer and deeper than his pithy radio reviews and reveal a commitment to reading as a passionate engagement with life., "This is a fascinating book -- and why not? Cheuse has probably read as much as anyone ever." -- Marvin J. LaHood, World Literature Today, "Steady, but also passionate, boundlessly receptive, but willing to tender strong judgment, Alan Cheuse is the reader any writer would want. For the same reasons, he is a writer serious readers will feel instantly connected to. Listening to the Pageis a generous and wise and quietly instructive book of essays." -- Sven Birkerts, "[An] incisive and vivifying essay collection.... Cheuse is wholly engaged and creative, stoking readers' hunger and helping them understand the bounty of their pursuit." -- Booklist, "The learned, lively, and handsomely crafted essays in this collection revive some neglected authors as varied as the dazzling Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, the magisterial Tom Wolfe (the elder), and the Russian memoirist Lidiya Ginsburg.... [Cheuse's] essays are instructive, his enthusiasm contagious, his views unobjectionable." -- Library Journal
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
809/.04
Table Of Content
Introduction: Getting Started; or, Two Thousand Books Part 1. Reading 1. Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading Toward the Millennium 2. Books in Flames: A View of Latin American Literature 3. The Lost Books 4. Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 5. Traces of Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction 6. Truth as Fiction: Or, the Tail of the Monstrous Peacock 7. The Consolation of Art Part 2. Rereading 8. You Can Read Wolfe Again 9. Stories of Deep Delight 10. Of Steinbeck and Salinas 11. The Return of James Agee 12. Mario Vargas Llosa and Conversation in the Cathedral: The Question of Naturalism 13. Where Is She Going? Where Has She Been?: Elizabeth Tallent's "No One's a Mystery'' and the Poetry of Female Initiation 14. A Wintry Saga 15. Bernard and Juliet: Romance and Desire in Malamud's High Art 16. Fitzgerald's Christmas Carol, or the Burden of "The Camel's Back'' 17. A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses 18. Rereading Traven Part 3. Writing 19. Confessions of an Ex-Minimalist 20. On the Contemporary 21. Of the Making of Books 22. Voices: A Conversation
Synopsis
Alien in the Delta Series "Alien in the Delta" has been separated into a three books series. "The Soldier" is the second book. Thankful Strother spent four years in the United States Air Force. He was stationed in Germany where he learned to speak German, met his future wife and traveled throughout Europe. "The Child" is the first book in the series. It highlights the life of a boy from the age of six until he graduates from high school at age seventeen. During that time he discovers music, girls, learns to dance, and becomes self-aware. "The Adult" is the last book in the series of three. Thankful returns home from Germany. He settles in Detroit, gets married, starts a family and buys their first house. He goes to work in the automotive industry, learns to program computers, enters the corporate world and becomes a successful real estate investor. The Series end after his promotion to District Sales Manager of NCR Corporation and the family moves to a Detroit suburb. An experience that stands out in my mind happened in a German restaurant. We were young men from the United States, living in Europe without a lot of exposure. Our knowledge of culture limited because we had not seen or done many things before coming to Germany. Bobby and I went to a German restaurant to eat dinner. We had gone there once before, and this time we brought our friend, Shorty with us. The hostess seated us and gave us the menus. While Shorty looked over the menu, Bobby and I had already decided what we wanted to order, so we placed our menus on the table. Noticing this, Shorty said that he would have whatever we were ordering. This restaurant was very upscale. Each table had a white tablecloth on it with a beautiful flower arrangement in the center. The settings consisted of plates, silverware, glasses, and white cloth napkins. When the waitress came to take our order, we all ordered the chicken dinner, just as before when Bobby and I had eaten there. Each dinner included a large piece of chicken, baked potato, salad, bread roll, and dessert. Except for the dessert, all the dinner items were serve to us at the same time. When we finished eating our dinner, our plates were remove. The waitress returned to our table carrying several small plates and bowls half filled with water with a lemon slice floating on top. She placed the small plates in front of us and set a bowl on each small plate. I asked Bobby if he wanted my lemon soup. He had enjoyed it so much the last time we were at the restaurant. Shorty began to laugh and said, "Let me get this straight. Are you telling me that Bobby ate the contents of that bowl the last time you were here?" I told Shorty that not only did he eat his soup, he also ate my serving. I described how Bobby took his bread and tore it into little pieces and placed them in the soup and used a spoon to finish eating his soup. At that point Shorty had started to convulse from laughing. We laughed along with Shorty, not knowing why he was laughing. When Shorty regained his composure, he told us that we were really ignorant country people. He explained that the bowls were call finger bowls because they were use to dip your fingers into after eating chicken to remove the grease. Then the bowls would be removed, and our waitress would bring us dessert and place it on the small plates. Well, we did not know anything about finger bowls in Arkansas and Mississippi, where Bobby and I came from. We continued laughing after finding out that Bobby had eaten finger bowl water, thinking it was soup. That was the last time we ate there. We were too embarrassed to return to that restaurant ever again., The novelist, critic, and book commentator from National Public Radio's All Things Considered looks back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved, reflecting on the authors and works that have influenced him in his own writing and then focusing his attention on the process of writing itself., When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born., When he sold his first short story to The New Yorkerin 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews,and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorkerstory appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born. In Listening to the Page, Alan Cheuse takes a look back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved, offering retrospective pieces on modern American literary figures such as Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Bernard Malamud, and John Steinbeck, as well as contemporary writers like Elizabeth Tallent and Vassily Aksyonov. Other essays explore landscape in All the Pretty Horses, the career of James Agee, Mario Vargas Llosa and naturalism, and the life and work of Robert Penn Warren.
LC Classification Number
PN511.C423 2001
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