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Paperback $18.95
Dec 04, 2007 | ISBN 9780307385987
Mr. Jefferson’s Women
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer
The Journals of John Cheever
Younger Than That Now
Sinatra
King Bongo
The Missionary and the Libertine
American Culture, American Tastes
Praise
“Riveting. . . . Marvelously entertaining. . . . Hughes’ portraits of people he knew in his youth often display the bravura touch that has distinguished his best journalism.” —The New York Times“[Hughes] deftly intertwines personal and cultural history in this fiercely erudite memoir. . . . A fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic.” —The New Yorker“Splendid. . . . Hughes has turned his hand to autobiography, with predictably and gratifyingly rewarding results.” —The Washington Post Book World“Hughes is the sort of ebullient writer who floods his reader with great bursting accumulations of words and gets carried away with the sheer exuberance of his narrative. It is compelling. You don’t want to miss a sentence” —The Christian Science Monitor
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