Piece of my Mind: Reflections at Sixty | 
 enlarge | Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1160766
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 239
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0374526710
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780374526719
ASIN: 0374526710
Publication Date: December 19, 1956
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Condition: 1956 Anchor is great shape for its age
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A renaissance man in the truest sense of the word July 21, 2002
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Being a relatively young Wilson fan, I stumbled across this gem during my graduate school days at NYU while perusing the basement shelves of an archaic used bookstore in Manhattan...
After reading A Piece of My Mind I have since read Wilson's To the Finland Station, The American Earthquake, and Memoirs of Hecate County; of which all are magnificent works in their own right. However, A Piece of My Mind is the definitive starting point in order to get a full grasp of Wilson's thoughts and opinions on everything from literature and communism to religion and evolution. He even throws in a revealing chapter about his parents and their sometimes strained relationship, complete with emotional and mental breakdowns.
Obviously Wilson is one of the greatest thinkers of the last century and A Piece of My Mind clearly demonstrates his talents and breadth of knowledge. It should be required reading for those with inquisitive minds who have the need to get to the bottom of everything, much like Wilson himself. A renaissance man in the truest sense of the word, one can't go wrong in reading Wilson; for a brilliant scholar his writing is refreshingly jargon free and relatively straight forward, which is a real treat.
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