Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White.

Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life's better moments. Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family. -- from Let Me Finish
Roger Angell has developed a broad and devoted following through his writings in the New Yorker and as the leading baseball writer of our time. Turning to more personal matters, he has produced a fresh form of autobiography in this unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his unusual relatives, his attachment to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and the young Joe DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during his long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell's new book offers a fresh view of the insistence of memory. "Like it or not," he writes, "we geezers are not the curators of this unstable repository of trifling or tragic days but only the screenwriters and directors of the latest revival."

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	320
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Mariner Books
Fecha de Publicación	2007-06-04
Dimensiones	8.0" x 5.2" x 0.8" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	New York, N.Y., Nueva York, Medio Atlántico, Noreste de EE.UU., Siglo 20, Medio Atlántico, Nueva York, New York, N.Y., Noreste de EE.UU., Siglo 20, Siglo 20, Noreste de EE.UU., Nueva York, New York, N.Y., Medio Atlántico, Noreste de EE.UU., Medio Atlántico, Nueva York, New York, N.Y., Siglo 20, New York, N.Y., Nueva York, Noreste de EE.UU., Medio Atlántico, Siglo 20, New York, N.Y., Nueva York, Medio Atlántico, Noreste de EE.UU., Siglo 20, New York, N.Y., Nueva York, Noreste de EE.UU., Medio Atlántico, Siglo 20, New York, N.Y., Nueva York, Noreste de EE.UU., Medio Atlántico, Siglo 20, New York, N.Y., Noreste de EE.UU., Medio Atlántico, Nueva York, Siglo 20

Angell, Roger

ROGER ANGELL joined The New Yorker as a fiction editor in 1962. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books, including Game Time: A Baseball Companion. He lives in New York and Maine.