My Misspent Youth: Essays

By: Meghan Daum

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Synopsis: My Misspent Youth is an incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic, from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed and the author of The UnspeakableAn essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape.From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 208 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781250067692
Related ISBNs:: 9781250067654
Publisher:: Picador
Date of Addition:: 03/28/24
Copyrighted By:: Meghan Daum.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Animals, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Technology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.