The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters UPDATE:Default Title For advocates

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Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers

of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead

A fiendishly innovative young writer ups the ante on his cult classics Et Tu

The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters UPDATE:Default Title For advocatesAuthor Contributor(s): Lesser, Wendy Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 7 2000 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self described "eighteenth century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, her experiences, and the works of her favorite