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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken, essays, Daniel Mendelsohn

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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken, essays, Daniel Mendelsohn

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken

Nature of contents

reviews

Oclc number

182621503

Responsibility statement

Daniel Mendelsohn

Sub title

essays

Summary

A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater

Table Of Contents

1. HEROINES. Novel of the year: The lovely bones -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Hours -- Victims on Broadway I: The Glass Menagerie -- Victims on Broadway II: A streetcar named Desire -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar: Volver -- Lost in Versailles: Marie Antoinette -- Looking for Lucia: Lucia at the Met -- Not an ideal husband: Ted Hughes's Alcestis -- 2. HEROICS. A little Iliad: Troy -- Alexander, the movie! -- Duty: 300 -- It's only a movie: Kill Bill: vol. 1 -- Nailed! Dale Peck's Hatchet jobs -- The way out: Everyman -- Mighty Hermaphrodite: Middlesex -- 3. CLOSETS. The Passion of Henry James: The master -- The two Oscar Wildes: The Importance of being earnest -- The tale of two housmans: The Invention of love -- The Truman show: The stories and letters of Truman Capote -- Winged messages: Angels in America -- An affair to remember: Brokeback mountain -- The man behind the curtain: John Boswell, Same-sex unions in premodern Europe -- 4. THEATER. The Greek way: Greek tragedies in New York -- Bitter-sweet: Private lives -- Double take: The producers -- Harold Pinter's Celebration: Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center -- 5. WAR. Theaters of War: Thucydides' history -- The bad boy of Athens: Medea on Broadway -- For the birds: Nathan Lane's Frogs -- September 11 at the movies: World Trade Center and United 93

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