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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
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Hardcover
1 edition from Houghton Mifflin (November 29, 2011)
9780618721948 | details & prices | 242 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip—from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander—by one of our “great essayists” (David Brooks)To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip.
About: A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip—from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander—by one of our “great essayists” (David Brooks)To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip.
Paperback
from Mariner Books (November 27, 2012)
9780547844596 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $13.95
About: Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise.
About: Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise.