An Angle on the World: Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
(eBook)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published
Skyhorse, 2016.
Status
Available Online

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Format
eBook
Language
English
ISBN
9781510708341

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bill Barich., & Bill Barich|AUTHOR. (2016). An Angle on the World: Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond . Skyhorse.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bill Barich and Bill Barich|AUTHOR. 2016. An Angle On the World: Dispatches and Diversions From the New Yorker and Beyond. Skyhorse.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bill Barich and Bill Barich|AUTHOR. An Angle On the World: Dispatches and Diversions From the New Yorker and Beyond Skyhorse, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bill Barich, and Bill Barich|AUTHOR. An Angle On the World: Dispatches and Diversions From the New Yorker and Beyond Skyhorse, 2016.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Go To Grouped Work

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID6d1f4cb2-c85b-bf43-fa19-c19265600081-eng
Full titleangle on the world dispatches and diversions from the new yorker and beyond
Authorbarich bill
Grouping Categorybook
Last Update2023-12-01 18:07:10PM
Last Indexed2024-03-27 03:36:43AM

Book Cover Information

Image Sourcehoopla
First LoadedAug 20, 2023
Last UsedAug 30, 2023

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2016
    [artist] => Bill Barich
    [fiction] => 
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/ssd_9781510708341_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 13374038
    [isbn] => 9781510708341
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => An Angle on the World
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 440
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Bill Barich
                    [artistFormal] => Barich, Bill
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Essays
            [1] => Europe
            [2] => Fishing
            [3] => Great Britain
            [4] => Italy
            [5] => Literary
            [6] => Literary Collections
            [7] => Special Interest
            [8] => Sports
            [9] => Sports & Recreation
            [10] => Travel
        )

    [price] => 1.69
    [id] => 13374038
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => An Angle on the World is a brilliant tribute to Bill Barich's extraordinary range as a writer. Gathering together more than thirty years of work, this book addresses such diverse subjects as a murder trial in the Caribbean, a visit to a juju doctor in Nigeria, and the author's youthful escapades in Italy and the Haight-Ashbury. As the New York Times put it, "An easy, fluid stylist, Barich writes entertainingly about anything."

As a staff writer at the New Yorker, Barich found editorial support for his long form dispatches. He makes no pretense of being an objective observer. Instead he's out to capture what Norman Mailer called "the feel of the phenomenon," be it the texture of street life in Belfast or the trails of operating a home for paranoid schizophrenics in San Francisco. He finds heroes in such unlikely places as San Fernando Valley, where former gang members try to prevent teenagers from killing one another in turf wars.

The hallmark of An Angle on the World is its compassion. Few writers are as gifted as Barich at making people come alive on the page. His portrait of David Milch, the legendary creator of HBO's Deadwood, offers an inside look at an eccentric genius at work. Here the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is depicted as a real person, not a rock star cliché. Barich's touch is light, intimate, and acutely aware of our foibles.

Whenever he hits the road, whether to London or Barbados, he expresses the sheer joy of being alive. An Angle on the World is an ideal bedside reader, packed with insight, good humor, and razor-sharp prose that has earned Barich his enviable reputation as a writers' writer.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13374038
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
    [publisher] => Skyhorse
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)