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"Delightful. . . . [Lesser] makes it possible to find
yourself, and your own relationships, in her raw anatomy of love
between friends." —Los Angeles Times“The three intensely
personal essays that make up this trenchant little volume display
Lesser’s talent for brilliant, merciless self-criticism. She
emerges as quirkily attractive and consistently interesting.”
—The Atlantic Monthly"It is [Lesser’s] growing sense of
doubt that expands and textures these essays as she reveals . . .
the foiled expectations, unexpected discoveries and lively
contradictions nested in her subjects." —San Francisco
Chronicle“Erudite, discursive. . . . Her self-knowledge is
acutely, fluidly, even beautifully rendered.” —The Washington
Post“A sensitive, literate writer with smart and provocative
things to say about art and life.” —Houston Chronicle
内容简介
Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three
separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin,
a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the
philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer
Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured.
Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, once
examined, things are never quite what she thought they were.