The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays by Acocella, Joan

The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay...
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Author: Joan Acocella
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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays by Acocella, Joan

The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

$60.44

The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

$60.44
Author: Joan Acocella
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.

Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it--its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism becomes a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times, "Hers is a vision that allows art its mystery but not its pretensions, to which she is acutely sensitive. What better instincts could a critic have?"

The Bloodied Nightgown: And Other Essays gathers twenty-four essays from the past decade and a half of Acocella's career, as well as an introduction that frames her simple preoccupations, "life and art." In agile, inspired prose, the New Yorker staff writer moves from J. R. R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf to the life of Richard Pryor, from surveying profanity to untangling in the book of Job. Her appetite (and reading list) knows no bounds. This collection is a joy and a revelation, a library in itself, and Acocella our dream companion among its shelves.

Includes 25 black-and-white images

Author: Joan Acocella
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374608095


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023

About the Author
Joan Acocella has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. She served as the magazine's dance critic from 1998 to 2019. Her books include Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and, most recently, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays. She coedited André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties and edited the unexpurgated version of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the New York Book Critics Circle. She lives in New York.

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