To Feel These Things

by Leonard Michaels

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562790404
• ISBN13: 9781562790400
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Mercury House
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Solid Essays, Some Better than Others

Leonard Michaels supplements his great fiction with a selection of autobiographical essays. The book is short, a mere 140 pages. The best essays are "Honeymoon" (the description of when Michaels worked as a busboy in the mountains, and of how a new bride fell in love with a handball playing waiter there), "The Nicest Shoes" (a great account of Michaels' time in LA, following around starlets and wanna-be actors), "Movie Eyes" (a truly personal essay about how it felt for the Hollywood types to make a movie about his novel, The Men's Club, and "No Time for Nina" (a recount of the time his physicist friend broke up with a long-time girlfriend). All the essays are well-written, some more interesting than others, but all have that distinct lyrical prose for which Michaels is famous.