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Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Anna Quindlen

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen comes "a splendid collection" of short essays that are "eloquent, powerful, compassionate, and droll" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

"Quindlen writes with rare insight, intelligence, and wit. Most of all she writes from the heart."--The Buffalo News

Thinking out loud is what Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen does best in this collection of her hugely popular New York Times columns. With her finger on the pulse of modern life, and her heart in a place we all recognize, she writes about the passions, politics, and peculiarities of Americans everywhere:

"Some people go nuts when their children learn to pick out the 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano. The day I realized my eldest child could read was one of the happiest days of my life."

"Discussions about the homeless always remind me of a woman who told me that she was damned if her tax dollars were going to pay for birth control for the poor. The question is not whether we will pay. It is what we want to pay for, and what works."

On subjects close to home and far away, Anna Quindlen remains a uniquely clear and incisive voice.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 8th, 1994
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.43in - 0.71in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780449909058
  • Categories: • Essays• Women in Politics• Women Authors

About the Author

Anna Quindlen is the author of many bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Rise and Shine, the #1 bestselling memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her other novels include Blessings, One True Thing, the Oprah Book Club Selection Black and Blue, and Still Life with Bread Crumbs.

Praise for this book

"Quindlen deserves her place on the masthead, has earned her Prize, and even sounds like somebody who would be fun to have to dinner. . . . Much of the pleasure is in the writing--[her] ability to turn a deft phrase, to notice the telling detail, to put a wry spin on a subject."--Boston Sunday Herald

"Ms. Quindlen has mastered--mistressed?--a thoughtful, argumentative style that neatly sidesteps the criticisms usually leveled at feminist writers. She is neither strident nor shrill. But she also knows that 'please' is not always necessary."--The Baltimore Sun

"Taken individually, these pieces are short commentaries on news events or issues of the day; seen as a whole, they constitute a history of the conflicts and ironies that have characterized the turbulence of the past few years. . . . Always there is Quindlen's incisive use of language, her quick wit, and her ability to see the private effect of the most public of deeds."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Quindlen writes with rare insight, intelligence, and wit. Most of all she writes from the heart. . . . Whatever the issue, whatever the emotion, Quindlen's 'thinking out loud' is worth a careful listen. Long may she type."--The Buffalo News