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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375503978
ISBN-13: 9780375503979
Feb 2000
Publisher: Random House Inc
428 pages
Modern Library Series
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Though he was never known to the public as a great writer, the New Yorker editor Harold Ross was a prolific and thoughtful letter-writer, as this collection of his letters to E. B. White, John O'Hara, Noel Coward, and Henry Luce (to name but a few) indicates.
| Details | | Series: | Modern Library Series |
| Size | | Length: | 428 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR should be read simply for pleasure, in which it abounds....[A]lmost every letter in the book's 418 pages contains...brusque and entertaining clarities--the Rossian nub--which makes this a read-aloud book, or read-across-the-room, sort of book....[A] refreshing and unironic anthology."
Angell
"[I]t's striking to experience firsthand Ross's famous curiosity: about the whisk brooms used by baseball umpires to sweep off home plate;...about the possibility of growing a small watermelon that would reach full size in a northern season...and about what exactly caused the deaths of people at Hiroshima....[H]e combined his virility with his fussiness, the qualities that made him so contradictory as well as the supremely great editor he became."
Lehmann-Haupt
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