NPR's zany and best-loved commentator--who muses on everything from footwear and goat cheese to the presidential elections--presents 120 never-before published stories from the "All Things Considered" radio program. Known nationally as "that crazy Romanian", Codrescu recently starred in the film version of his book Road Scholar. Weekly author commentaries.
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NPR's zany and best-loved commentator--who muses on everything from footwear and goat cheese to the presidential elections--presents 120 never-before published stories from the "All Things Considered" radio program. Known nationally as "that crazy Romanian", Codrescu recently starred in the film version of his book Road Scholar. Weekly author commentaries.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Signed by Codrescu on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling and edgewear, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xi, 307pp.
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Near Fine in None as issued jacket. Size: 6x0x9; Excellent paperback copy, clean, solid with unmarked text. Cover has mild surface and edge wear. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. Books, box sets, and items other than standard jewel case CDs and DVDs that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). The leading, experienced Romanian-born commentator from America's National Public Radio presents his best essays from the programming there, mostly deriving from the period of the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, with much insight and ideas relating to the evolving American foreign policy, political systems abroad, radical social and political changes everywhere, and on many other topics. Hardcover with dust jacket, 307pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
Codrescu is a Jewish intellectual -- an expatriate from communist Romania now a naturalized U.S. citizen. Codrescu came to America as a young man in the Sixties, grew his hair, smoked a lot of pot while doing the road-trip gig. Now he teaches Literature at Louisiana State University and writes (among other things) extraordinarily trenchant essays that flash a keen wit and a mean eye.
Codrescu is an unabashed liberal, which will turn some people off immediately. Not everybody can see past their prejudices, after all. So if you're one of those who can, or if you're a liberal like Codrescu, you will enjoy this book. If, on the other hand, you're one of those conservative ideologues (You don't know who you are) who is unashamed to show contempt prior to investigation, you should avoid Codrescu's little book because you won't have any fun with it.
