Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781604191288)

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Joseph Epstein's Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains 58 essays. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness." It follows the much-acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012; A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014; Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, 2016; and The Ideal of Culture: Essays, 2018.After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.

Author: Joseph Epstein
ISBN-10: 1604191287
ISBN-13: 9781604191288
Publisher: Axios Press
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2020
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 2.00d