books by Wilfrid Sheed     books:       In Love with Daylight3 reviews Wilfrid Sheed Simon & Schuster, 1995 A Gamer If Not a Master Player--Unique and Important A memoir in which Sheed, an avid sports fan, takes on three worthy opponents--polio, addiction, and cancer--and not only stays in the ring with each but emerges triumphant. But the book's uniqueness and value is not easily summed up. Sheed's accomplishment is to take the reader into a place where all of the counselors, physicans and self-help gurus rarely arrive, and he does so without a trace ...             Frank and Maisie: A Memoir With Parents1 review Wilfrid Sheed Touchstone, 1986 A funny, touching, brimming-with-love memoir Anyone who reads this book will become --- if they are not already --- an admirer of the author's parents, Frank (Sheed) and Maisie (Ward); and will be moved to laughter and to tears in tracing the fortunes of this exceptionally talented, quirky, and rollicking Catholic family. It is odd, and it can provoke a bit of hand-wringing in some readers, that although Wilfrid remembers his mother ...             16 Short Novels: 21 review Wilfrid Sheed Dutton Adult, 1985 Contents Andrea, by John O'Hara. The Old Maid, by Edith Wharton. Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck. Mario and the Magician, by Thomas Mann. Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain. Ward No. 6, by Anton Chekhov. Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Fall, by Albert Camus. Old Man, by William Faulkner. Youth, by Joseph Conrad. The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James. My Mortal Enemy, by ...             The Good Word & Other Words1 review Wilfrid Sheed Dutton, 1978 Intelligent, amiable and enjoyable Sheed writes with insight and good sense on a wide variety of literary figures, Edmund Wilson, Hemingway, Orwell, Irving Howe, Cyril Connally, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, Thurber, F.Scott Fitzgerald. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman. He also writes with great knowledge about the literary world he was born in to as his parents were the publishers, Sheed and Ward. He has a wide ...             The Kennedy Legacy: A Generation Later1 review Wilfrid Sheed Studio, 1988 Good pictures...pre-1962, that is Jacques Lowe did not have the longevity of White House photographers Cecil Stoughton (whom I corresponded with) and the late Robert Knudsen. Nonetheless, there are some unique pictures in this volume and Wilfrid Sheed writes well. [...]             Frank and Maisie : a memoir with parents / Wilfrid Sheed1 review Wilfrid Sheed New York : Simon and Schuster, 1985 "Finding new ways to be a Catholic" Remember the Catholic publishing house of SHEED & WARD? Hold in your creative imagination that that is spelled "Sheed AMPERSAND Ward" of London and New York. Its founders in 1926 were a married couple, Australian theologian Frank Sheed and biographer and member of the English gentry Mary ("Maisie") Ward. She was six feet tall, he inches loftier. They published many Catholic writers, British, ...             Muhammad Ali1 review Wilfrid Sheed New American Library, 1975 An out of print gem. Sadly, this book is out of print although some consider it to be one of the best things ever published about Ali. It's a mistake to measure its value solely on the quality of the photographs (which are extraordinary). Sheed's essay is of definite interest. Unlike many of the more well-known, but slightly hagiographic Ali biographies in print, Sheed manages to balance his obvious admiration for ...             Clare Booth Luce: 21 review Wilfrid Sheed Dutton Adult, 1982 A Fascinating But Limited Portrait of a Controversial 20th Century Trailblazer Although she is seldom recalled today, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) was easily among the best-known, most powerful, and most influential women of the 20th Century. She was also an extremely, extremely divisive figure: those who loved her were devoted in their affection; those who hated her were devoted in their ire. By some accounts an illegitimate child (something that Sheed does not note ...             Max Jamison2 reviews Wilfrid Sheed Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1970 A masterpiece, disgracefully out of print! I've bought several copies of this and Sheed's other novels and his collections of criticism for friends over the years, and was astonished and angered to discover that none of his fiction is in print. Sheed is one of the great comic novelists and social satirists of the past century, the equal of Evelyn Waugh--maybe if someone made this or another of his stories into a movie, he would get a ...             MUHAMMAD ALI: A PORTRAIT IN WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS1 review WILFRID SHEED WEIDENFELD & N, 1975 Great photos of Ali, but uninspired commentary I remember when my uncle bought me this book for my birthday about 25 years ago. I loved the large colorful pictures, especially a 2 page layout of Ali glaring disdainfully at a retreating George Foreman. The pictures alone make the book a worthy purchase. But Sheed doesn't offer any insightful commentary on Ali other than his own biased meanderings. It isn't the best book on Ali in terms of ...             The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty40 reviews Wilfrid Sheed Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 The House that George Built It is amazing to think that there were people walking about the streets of Hollywood and Broadway with those fabulous songs ringing in their heads yearning to be written down for the first time. and Wilfred Sheed writes like a happy man expounding on a theme at a slightly tipsy dinner table late at night. I read the whole thing in two evenings.             Clemente!1 review Kal Wagenheim Olmstead Press, 2001 A nice remembrance of a great player This book came out about a year after Roberto Clemente's death in a plane crash. The author mixes narrative and interviews with Clemente's family and friends. It's nice reading for those of us who loved watching number 21 throw strikes from the right field fence and hit line drives with his unorthodox batting style. It's good reading also for those who only know Clemente from ESPN footage.             American Heritage, October 1993 (Volume 44, Number 6) John Steele Gordon, Fredric Smoler, ... Society of American Historians, 1993 112 pp. Contents: Gordon, "The American Environment"; Smoler, "We Had a Great History, and We Turned Aside"; "The American Century of Bessie and Sadie Delany"; Sheed, "The Songwriters in Hollywood"; Smith, "The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker"; Baker, "From Robert Benchley to Andrew Dice Clay"; others. Photograph of Abraham Lincoln on front.             Transatlantic Blues1 review Wilfrid Sheed Sidg. & J, 1979 What to Read on TransAtlantic Flights: Transatlantic Blues As the title implies, TRANSATLANTIC BLUES deals with the conflicts and complexities of living in, or having ties to, both Britain and the U.S. Our hero begins on a flight across the Atlantic, dwelling on his shortcomings and making confession to a fellow passenger (who, it turns out, is not in the clergy). Things progress in a kind of Erma-Bombeck-meets-Paul-Theroux way. Worth a read if you ...              search for books about, american, blues, built, clemente, daylight, fifty, frank, generation, george, heritage, irving, jamison, kennedy, legacy, little, maisie, memoir, muhammad, novels, number, october, parents, photographs, portrait, sheed, short, transatlantic, volume, wilfrid books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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