Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again
$24.95
Great writing is timeless, and so it is with Deja Reviews. Fifteen years later, a decade since, no matter how “old” her review, no matter how dated the topic of an essay, readers of this hearty collection will find that Florence King’s sharp, crafted prose still dazzles and endures — each piece is as fresh as a slap in the face, as biting as an angry asp, and as funny as all heck!
The perfect companion to STET, Damnit! —the acclaimed collection of her NR “Misanthrope’s Corner” columns — Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again is a handsome 360-page hardcover collection of each and every one of the glorious essays and unrivalled book reviews Miss King penned for National Review and The American Spectator up until her (now happily revoked!) retirement in 2002.
A must for any fan, Deja Reviews includes classic essays such as “A Wasp Looks at Lizzie Borden” and “South Mouth: Why Liberals Hate Dixie” — plus 59 book reviews, the milieu where Miss King’s talents are on their most glorious display. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Greenberg said it best in his insightful introduction: “my favorite part of this collection may be the book reviews. Florence King’s specialty is the good review of a bad book. It would be hard, it might be impossible, to top this opening paragraph of one such review:
The perfect companion to STET, Damnit! —the acclaimed collection of her NR “Misanthrope’s Corner” columns — Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again is a handsome 360-page hardcover collection of each and every one of the glorious essays and unrivalled book reviews Miss King penned for National Review and The American Spectator up until her (now happily revoked!) retirement in 2002.
A must for any fan, Deja Reviews includes classic essays such as “A Wasp Looks at Lizzie Borden” and “South Mouth: Why Liberals Hate Dixie” — plus 59 book reviews, the milieu where Miss King’s talents are on their most glorious display. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Greenberg said it best in his insightful introduction: “my favorite part of this collection may be the book reviews. Florence King’s specialty is the good review of a bad book. It would be hard, it might be impossible, to top this opening paragraph of one such review:
Back in the Cold War, whenever I had to review an unreadable book, I always comforted myself with the thought, ‘Maybe the Russians will drop the Bomb and I won’t have to finish reading this.’ Those were the days. This time, stuck with A Pilgrim’s Way: The Personal Story of the Episcopal Bishop Charged with Heresy for Ordaining a Gay Man Who Was in a Committed Relationship, by the Rt. Rev. Walter C. Righter, author of the longest subtitle in publishing history, all I could hope for was an asteroid.Boy, can she write! And as for asteroids, you’ll wish you’d been struck by one if you don’t take advantage of this special offer. Order your copies today of Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again for only $24.95 each, direct from NR (they won’t be in bookstores till 2007!). They’ll be shipped to you — free of charge!