The Short Version: An ABC Book

by Stan Persky and Czesław Miłosz

In a volume inspired by Czeslaw Milosz, Stan Persky appropriates the format of the alphabet book as a springboard for musings both personal and philosophical. The Short Version -- which, at 300-plus pages is the author's longest book -- is a literal ABC: Persky covers only topics that begin with those three letters, though he can't resist tweaking the format to include such subjects as Richard Rorty ("Contingency") and Jack Spicer ("After Lorca")...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554200164
• ISBN13: 9781554200160
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 333 Pages