{"product_id":"let-me-finish","title":"Let Me Finish","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man : \"Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking.\"— The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker , Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Let Me Finish , 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Game , \"one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his…generation\" ( Time ) .\u003cbr\u003e\n\"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.\"— The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53956560126320,"sku":"978-0547541372","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/81kS_J3sQ5L._SY522.jpg?v=1782742690","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/let-me-finish","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}