Lasting Impressions Essays, 1961-1987

New York : Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394587200 . Blue hardcover with black cloth spine covering. A First Edition, Near Fine book. Binding is tight, pages are clean & unmarked and there is light tanning to the front cover top edges. The DJ is in Near Fine condition, very moderate cover wear. Contents: Pain and laughter / Sholom Aleichem -- Five minutes of life / Isaac Babel -- Growing old / Simone de Beauvoir -- The sayings of Don Geraldo / Gerald Brenan -- Pioneer / Robert Browning -- Welsh peasants / Bruce Chatwin -- Spectators / Flaubert & Turgenev --Universal man / Humboldt --Irish behaviour / Molly Keane --Medieval voices / Le Roy Ladurie --The death of Lorca / Lorca --Malraux and Picasso / Andre Malraux --The romantic agony / Thomas Mann --Iran and Pakistan / V. S. Naipaul --The crystal spirit / George Orwell --A better class of person / John Osborne --Clowns / Walker Percy --Escaping from Belfast / Forrest Reid --Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie --Lost in the stars / Antoine de Saint-Exupery --Comic genius / Bruno Schulz --The stamp of the puritan / Bernard Shaw --Getting richer / John Updike --One of nature's Balkans / Rebecca West --An Anglo-Irishman / Oscar Wilde --Never-never-land / P. G. Wodehouse --The strength of an injured spirit / Mary Wollstonecraft. ; 9.40 X 6.60 X 0.80 inches; 171 pages .