num_pages: 0
description: Since 1960 the novelist and poet has been reviewing books for the New Yorker, and the reviews of the last eight years make up the bulk of this volume. Authors include Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Anne Tyler, Italo Calvino, Henry Green, Robert Pinget, L.E. Sissman, R.K. Narayan and Roland Barthes. He also writes of actresses Louise Brooks and Doris Day and golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.
language: English
title: Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
titlecomplete: Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
genres: Books About Books, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Reference, 20th Century, Literature, Writing, Essays, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 246
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd