The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 06/02/2003
ISBN: 9780312316136
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.12w x 0.52d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/13/2003 pg. 28