Portrait of My Body Boers The new Italian evening class

The new Italian evening class at Mountainview School in Dublin is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city--but this one has its own special quality

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Length: 106 min

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Portrait of My Body Boers The new Italian evening classPhillip 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, who helped focus attention on the form in his acclaimed anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate demonstrates here just how far a writer can go in the direction of honesty and risk