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.
- ISBN10 0233976108
- ISBN13 9780233976105
- Publish Date 1 January 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 900
- Language English