num_pages: 341
description: These twenty-one essays include a long piece of reportage, texts of lectures, reviews and criticism, prefaces and postfaces, the story of an opera retold, two accounts of gardens and gardeners, and four moving obituaries
language: English
title: Occasional Prose: Essays
titlecomplete: Occasional Prose: Essays
genres: Nonfiction, Essays
ratings_count: 5
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich