Nobody's Perfect : The Reviews of Anthony Lane Esquire

Nobody's Perfect : The Reviews of Anthony Lane Esquire by Anthony Lane. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780330491822.

"Nobodys Perfect", the much anticipated collection from "The New Yorker" critic, brings together a generous selection of Lanes film criticisms, profiles, book reviews, and essays on art and culture. In the manner of Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Tynan, Lane embraces high and low with equal gusto, clearly having a marvelous time. Whether hes writing about T. S. Eliot or Judith Krantz, Alfred Hitchcock or Andre Gide, to read him-or better yet, to reread him - is to be carried along on a current of passionate declamation and urgent inquiry, wry reflection and penetrating wit. Taken together, these pieces reflect some of the most brilliant writing and thinking to have graced the pages of "The New Yorker", and they impart a cultural and artistic literacy of the highest order. This, Lanes first book, is an exhilarating volume for fans old and new.