THE UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS OF ELIZABETH HARDWICK

New York City, NY: New York Review Books, 2022. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: New York Review Books, 2022. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 285 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most valuable American literary collections of the 20th century. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a tiny one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and editor. The Uncorrected Proof has the same ISBN as the trade edition. It is now rare. Presents, in its earliest-printing format, "The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick". Now collected essays on the widest variety of relevant and important subjects by a fully engaged mind: Music, art, pop culture, literature, politics, contemporary events, and everything else in-between. As Uncorrected Proofs go, this one is actually identical to the regular trade edition that it considerably precedes. "The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here - none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick's work - make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner's 'Parsifal' to Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits souffle. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick's passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970's on, to write well about seemingly anything" (Publisher's blurb). The brief, three-page piece on the young Susan Sontag, which first appeared in Vogue Magazine, is the best short essay on her, and as always with literary appreciations, acutely revealing of Hardwick, too. An absolute "must-have" title for Elizabeth Hardwick collectors. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Uncorrected Proof available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare copy thus. One of the finest American writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELIZABETH HARDWICK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1681376237.