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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
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A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning writer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our time--"a master of vivisection," as Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times. "When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact."
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"A collection of essays from an incisive cultural observer ..."
"The beauty of a sentence can occasionally blind Thurman to its veracity."
"The section devoted to fashion designers...is especially well-researched and engaging and makes the art of couture more accessible to neophytes ..."
"She is a polyglot and a chameleon, precise, erudite, forthright."
"Thurman is a sharp critic whose observations cut through to the essence of her subjects ..."
"Thurman does not so much ponder a fact as assess it in the round, like a work of sculpture."
"This solidifies Thurman as a master of the form."
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