9780060161668 - For Love & Money: A Writing Life 1969-1989 von Raban, Jonathan (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. First U.S. Edition, first Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First U.S. Edition, first Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First U.S. Edition, first Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. As new with minimal wear. From private collection of former book reviewer. ; 9.50 X 5.90 X 1.20 inches; 344 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "Jonathan Raban gave up teaching in 1969 for the 'glamorous musk of the writing stuff on the kitchen table and the promise of another, riskier career.' FOR LOVE & MONEY charts the serendipitous course of a life in the writing trade. Forthright, thoughtful, and often scathingly funny, Raban muses on the flawed art of book reviewing, little magazines, hunting commissions for TV plays, traveling, writing for journals, and writing books. He is frank about money and failure and absorbingly interesting about the aesthetic dilemmas of a freelancer trying to balance the need to make a living with desire to create work of lasting merit. Entwined in this revealing narrative is a rich array of work that includes previously uncollected fiction, wry portraits of childhood and family life, and dazzling travel writing. Here are accounts of trout fishing with Robert Lowell, rafting down the Euphrates with Freya Stark, visiting John D. MacDonald, stumbling onto the drug trade in the Florida Keys, and discovering the 31-foot ketch Gosfield Maid, on which he coasted around Britain and Europe for five years. Here, too, is the best of Raban's literary criticism, including pieces on Byron, Trollope, Kipling, Waugh, Lowell, Bellow, Welty, and Updike--essays that send you eagerly back to their books. Raban's quality of attention makes him interesting in any genre, and his marvelously precise prose, bristling with informative detail, makes FOR LOVE & MONEY a treasure." [jacket copy] "This is the best book about the writing life I've read for a long time--funny, truthful, exciting and horribly exact."--Derek Mahon, The Irish Times. "His writing inculcates a style of humane and witty conversation: he excels at the revealing anecdote, the smart phrase, the art of happy extravagance. And by being perhaps the only critic of caliber who is not an egomaniac, his judgments emerge as elegant ponderosities of an intelligent reader--and not from a critic at all."--Roger Lewis, Punch. Near Fine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges--slight foxing on top edge--a square & tight binding, in a NF intact jacket slightly bumped at spine ends, minimal shelfwear o/w unmarked & quite presentable.