Enemies of Promise
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Word Count
69,500 words, Guess
Page Count
278 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100226115046
- ISBN-139780226115047
- Goodreads1982737
- Library of Congress Control Number2008005378
- OCLC Control Number191847179
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226115047
- Open LibraryOL9599618M
Classifications
- LCCPR471 .C65 2008
- LCCPR471.C65 2008
Description
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten years,” tests the boundaries of criticism, journalism, and autobiography with the blistering prose that became Connolly’s trademark. Connolly here confronts the evils of domesticity, politics, drink, and advertising as well as novelists such as Joyce, Proust, Hemingway, and Faulkner in essays that remain fresh and penetrating to this day.
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