The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters UPDATE:Default Title but above all

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The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters UPDATE:Default Title but above allAuthor Contributor(s): Lesser, Wendy Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 7 2000 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self described "eighteenth century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, her experiences, and the works of her favorite