The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

by Joan Acocella

Book Overview

A collection of the New Yorker critic's finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world.

Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), and she had the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it--its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it springs. In her hands, arts criticism was a celebration and an investigation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374608091
• ISBN13: 9780374608095
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"