{"product_id":"9780547541372","title":"Let Me Finish","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays from the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer and author of \u003ci\u003eThis Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLet Me Finish\u003c\/i\u003e, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small—from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Game\u003c\/i\u003e, “one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his…generation” (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A lovely book and an honest one…about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It's also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113362243824,"sku":"9780547541372","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547541372_p0.jpg?v=1763716957","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547541372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}