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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Gatekeeper: A Memoirby Terry Eagleton
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man. Review:"Eagletons style dazzles, illuminates, and connects." (Providence Journal)Review:"[A] hilarious and devastating little book." (The New York Times Book Review)Review:"Eagleton cracks jokes as easily as one would crack peanut shells." (Washington Post Book World)Review:"Witty and entertaining...heady, brimming with blistering screeds against the sacred and the profane." (Entertainment Weekly)Synopsis:Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man. About the AuthorTerry Eagleton is the author of, among other books, Literary Theory and The Truth About the Irish. He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film Wittgenstein. He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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