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Released: March 10, 1971
"A fair and fine tribute to a dark and aggravating presence."
Dr. Johnson was engaged, according to Dr. Fussell's entertaining monograph, in savagely honest exercises in this world's significations and the obligations attendant on the next.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 1975
"Still, the subject is immensely important, and Fussell—best when examining the memoirs of half-anonymous survivors—opens up challenging lines of inquiry into what he calls, in Northrop Frye's words, a piece of "our own buried life."
New inroads into an area of literary history partly probed by Bernard Bergonzi's Heroes' Twilight (1966).
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1980
"In this irascibly lyrical vein Fussell is as good as the people he writes about—which is very good indeed."
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Released: Sept. 7, 1989
"Funny, upsetting, at times brilliantly illuminating."
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Released: Oct. 1, 1991
"Domestic—and invaluable—Fussell."
From Fussell, a great crying out at just about everything that's awful about today's America.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1994
"Despite the oddities in diction and tone, Fussell is the perfect match for his subject — witty, thoughtful, brief, and, not least of it, accurate."
Fussell (Bad, 1991, etc.) certainly has come a long way from his early work as a conventional literary scholar.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 1996
"Unpleasant in many ways, but valuable, as are other of Fussell's works, for a forthright portrayal of war's horrors and lasting ill effects."
From literary historian Fussell (The Angi-Egotist, 1994; Wartime 1989; etc.), a lugubrious, frequently self-pitying account, relieved by flashes of wit, of how he evolved from a happy-go-lucky Southern California innocent into the vinegary cynic and intellectual snob he is now.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 12, 2002
"Social history that, like certain academics' clothes, presents an overall handsome, even flashy appearance while looking oddly patched together."
In what he bills "a book unashamedly about appearances," the acerbic literary and social critic (
The Anti-Egotist, 1994, etc.) analyzes, with varying degrees of success, what uniforms reveal about class, sex, and the need to belong.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
"A bracing corrective for a literature recently dominated by Ambrose, Brokaw, and other cheerleaders, and just right for a new season of war."
