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An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.

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"The essence of Steiner’s magic—I don’t really know what else to call it—has been his singular ability to articulate and elucidate, through nuance, allusion, and a peerless precision of language, those Phoebus-rays of wisdom that lie beyond wisdom and almost always elude words." -- Nick Tosches - Bookforum
"[He] seems to know most things worth knowing and is acutely perceptive and energetically serious about them all." -- Jeff Simon - The Buffalo News
"A remarkably powerful writer." -- The Christian Science Monitor
"A keenly discriminating literary mind." -- The New York Times Book Review

George Steiner at the New Yorker New Directions

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 20/02/2009
      ISBN13: 9780811217040, 978-0811217040
      ISBN10: 0811217043

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.

      Trade Review
      "The essence of Steiner’s magic—I don’t really know what else to call it—has been his singular ability to articulate and elucidate, through nuance, allusion, and a peerless precision of language, those Phoebus-rays of wisdom that lie beyond wisdom and almost always elude words." -- Nick Tosches - Bookforum
      "[He] seems to know most things worth knowing and is acutely perceptive and energetically serious about them all." -- Jeff Simon - The Buffalo News
      "A remarkably powerful writer." -- The Christian Science Monitor
      "A keenly discriminating literary mind." -- The New York Times Book Review

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