Works on Paper: 1980-1986

by Eliot Weinberger

Book Overview

During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger's inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. Works on Paper is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined-by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people. "Inventions of Asia," the first section, deals primarily with how the West reinvents the East (and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811210014
• ISBN13: 9780811210010
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The First Review!?!

Eliot Weinberger is hands-down the finest American essayist around. Read this book as a primer.