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The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

The Gatekeeper: A Memoir Paperback - 2003

by Eagleton, Terry

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  • Title The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
  • Author Eagleton, Terry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York
  • Publication date 2003-06-02
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR009107369
  • ISBN 9780312316136 / 0312316135
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.92 x 5.12 x 0.52 in (20.12 x 13.00 x 1.32 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

From the publisher

Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched 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, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.

First line

The convent was a squat, ramshackle building, its roof more corrugated iron than Gothic pinnacle.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 07/13/2003, Page 28

About the author

Terry Eagleton is the author of, among other books, Literary Theory and The Truth About the Irish. He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film Wittgenstein. He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.

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