Name: The Gatekeeper: A Memoir, Paperback/Terry Eagleton
Brand: St. Martins Press-3PL
Price: 105.99 RON
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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 Author: Terry 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.