Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre--Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America's foremost essayists,...
"Immensely readable essays.... Phillip Lopate] remains 'a storyteller at heart' who can liven up any subject with nimble anecdotes from his life....Delightful" ( The New York Times Book Review ). In this stunning collection of personal essays chosen as one of The New Yorke r's...