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Name: An Exaltation of Larks
Author: James Lipton

Auteur: James Lipton

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: James Lipton

Engels
Paperback
9780140170962
01 november 1993
336 pagina's

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James Lipton

James Lipton is the creator, executive producer, writer, and host of Inside the Actors Studio, which is seen in eighty-nine million homes in America on the Bravo network, and in 125 countries, and has received fourteen Emmy nominations. He is the author of the novel Mirrors, which he then adapted and produced for the screen, and of the American literary perennial An Exaltation of Larks, and has written the book and lyrics of two Broadway musicals. His television productions include Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Gala, the first presidential concert ever televised; twelve Bob Hope birthday specials, reaching record-breaking audiences; and The Road to China, the first American entertainment program from the People’s Republic. He is a vice president of the Actors Studio, is the founder and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, has received three honorary PhDs, is a recipient of France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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A delightfully unexpected, lovingly curated ode to the unique collective nouns that adorn our language, from &;a leap of leopards&; to &;a murder of crows&; and beyond, from the inimitable voice behind Inside the Actors Studio

&;I am madly in love with collective nouns! They make language so colorful and ticklish. . . . [An Exaltation of Larks] possess[es] an embarrassment of riches (wink wink!).&; &;Lupita Nyong&;o, The New York Times

For those who have wondered if the familiar &;pride of lions&; and &;gaggle of geese&; were merely the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided a definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, often poetic terms he has unearthed and collected into one exhaustive volume. Over years of painstaking research, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a &;slouch of models,&; a &;shrivel of critics,&; an &;unction of undertakers,&; a &;blur of Impressionists,&; a &;score of bachelors,&; a &;pocket of quarterbacks,&; and many more.

Witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt, An Exaltation of Larks is a brilliant compendium of more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that ever-evolving species, the English language.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 november 1993
Aantal pagina's: 336
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Hoofdauteur: James Lipton
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Random House Australia

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Editie: Re-issue
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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
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