How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays

Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games.

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/11/2009
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780061456442

About the Author
Mendelsohn, Daniel: -

Daniel Mendelsohn a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, is the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College.