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$3.80The Story
Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagletons memoirs, his deepetched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewersharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a doubleedged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.
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Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagletons memoirs, his deepetched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewersharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a doubleedged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.
