How to Do Things Right by L Rust Hills

How to Do Things Right by L Rust Hills

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Will have you laughing out loud, thinking hard, and at least temporarily rearranging your frazzled life. Hills is wise, witty, and very funny. His mission is to create order out of chaos, to make arcane methodology of fussiness respectable, to elevate and even ennoble, those fleeting instincts we all harbour.

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How to Do Things Right by L Rust Hills

The subtitle goes on: Three Incomparable Books of Wit, Charm, and Wisdom Finally Available in One Volume, as Revised, Edited, and Enhanced by the Author. The three books, previously published separately by Doubleday, are How to Do Some Particular Things Particularly, How to Retire at Forty-One , and
L. Rust Hills was an author and the fiction editor at Esquire from 1957 to 1964, though he remained associated with the magazine until 1999. Authors he championed include Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and E. Annie Proulx.
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ISBN 13 9780879239695
ISBN 10 0879239697
Title How to Do Things Right
Author L Rust Hills
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Year published 2004-11-18
Number of pages 259
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.