Life stories : profiles from The New Yorker / edited by David Remnick
- Bib ID:
- 1711985
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Random House, c2000
- xii, 530 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0375503552 (acid-free paper)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / David Remnick
- Mr. Hunter's Grave (George F. Hunter) / Joseph Mitchell
- Secrets of the Magus (Ricky Jay) / Mark Singer
- Isadora (Isadora Duncan) / Janet Flanner
- The Soloist (Mikhail Baryshnikov) / Joan Acocella
- Time ... Fortune ... Life ... Luce (Henry Robinson Luce) / Wolcott Gibbs
- Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (Heloise) / Ian Frazier
- The Mountains of Pi (the Chudnovsky Brothers) / Richard Preston
- Covering the Cops (Edna Buchanan) / Calvin Trillin
- Travels in Georgia (Carol Ruckdeschel) / John McPhee
- The Man Who Walks on Air (Philippe Petit) / Calvin Tomkins
- A House on Gramercy Park (Benjamin Sonnenberg) / Geoffrey Hellman
- How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway) / Lillian Ross
- The Education of a Prince (Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) / Alva Johnston
- White Like Me (Anatole Broyard) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Wunderkind (Floyd Patterson) / A. J. Liebling.
- Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale (Johnny Carson) / Kenneth Tynan
- The Duke in His Domain (Marlon Brando) / Truman Capote
- A Pryor Love (Richard Pryor) / Hilton Als
- Gone for Good (Steve Blass) / Roger Angell
- Lady with a Pencil (Katharine White) / Nancy Franklin
- Dealing with Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) / John Lahr
- The Coolhunt (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon) / Malcolm Gladwell
- Man Goes to See a Doctor (Max Grosskurth) / Adam Gopnik
- Show Dog (Biff Truesdale) / Susan Orlean
- Forty-one False Starts (David Salle) / Janet Malcolm.
- Notes:
- Full bibliographic record available from Mason's Book Centre.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Remnick, David
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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