Narcissus leaves the pool
Subtitle: familiar essays
By: Joseph Epstein.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Description: Joseph Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces rounds off more than two decades of his writing under the name Aristides for The American Scholar. Among the things that arise here are naps, Gershwin, name-dropping, long books, growing older, talent versus genius, Anglophilia, and surgery. These are essays about the head and the heart.
Notes: Essays originally published in The American scholar, The New Yorker, and The Hudson review.