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The Grand Surprise
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Author : Leo Lerman
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009-02-19
The Grand Surprise written by Leo Lerman and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.
The Grand Surprise Iv
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Author : Ravi Shankar Villuri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-05
The Grand Surprise Iv written by Ravi Shankar Villuri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with categories.
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Author : John Woolmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-09
Grand Surprise written by John Woolmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Butterflies categories.
The Ballad Of John Latouche
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Author : Howard Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Ballad Of John Latouche written by Howard Pollack and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill of his lyrics elicited comparisons with the likes of Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Cole Porter, but he had too, noted Stephen Sondheim, a large vision of what musical theater could be, and he proved especially venturesome in helping to develop a lyric theater that innovatively combined music, word, dance, and costume and set design. Many of his pieces, even if not commonly known today, remain high points in the history of American musical theater. A great American genius in the words of Duke Ellington, Latouche initially came to wide public attention in his early twenties with his cantata for soloist and chorus, Ballad for Americans (1939), with music by Earl Robinson-a work that swept the nation during the Second World War. Other milestones in his career included the all-black musical fable, Cabin in the Sky (1940), with Vernon Duke; an interracial updating of John Gay's classic, The Beggar's Opera, as Beggar's Holiday (1946), with Duke Ellington; two acclaimed Broadway operas with Jerome Moross: Ballet Ballads (1948) and The Golden Apple (1954); one of the most enduring operas in the American canon, The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), with Douglas Moore; and the operetta Candide (1956), with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Extremely versatile, he also wrote cabaret songs, participated in documentary and avant-garde film, translated poetry, adapted plays, and much else. Meanwhile, as one of Manhattan's most celebrated raconteurs and hosts, he developed a wide range of friends in the arts, including, to name only a few, Paul and Jane Bowles (whom he introduced to each other), Yul Brynner, John Cage, Jack Kerouac, Frederick Kiesler, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Dawn Powell, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams-a dazzling constellation of diverse artists working in sundry fields, all attracted to Latouche's brilliance and joie de vivre, not to mention his support for their work. This book draws widely on archival collections both at home and abroad, including Latouche's diaries and the papers of Bernstein, Ellington, Moore, Moross, and many others, to tell for the first time, the story of this fascinating man and his work.
Tilly Tiptoes And The Grand Surprise
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Author : Caroline Plaisted
language : en
Publisher: Tilly Tiptoes
Release Date : 2011
Tilly Tiptoes And The Grand Surprise written by Caroline Plaisted and has been published by Tilly Tiptoes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Ballet dancers categories.
Tilly's mum is a dancer, but her godmother is the wardrobe mistress and she spends lots of time with her backstage. When Tilly's mum is dancing, Tilly helps out with chores and generally gets involved with the exciting events of the world of theatre.
Firefly Summer
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Author : Pura Belpré
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Firefly Summer written by Pura Belpré and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
At a plantation in rural Puerto Rico around the turn of the century the foreman pursues the mystery surrounding his family.
Carson Mccullers
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Author : Mary V. Dearborn
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Carson Mccullers written by Mary V. Dearborn and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure . . .” And Tennessee Williams said, “The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson.” She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she’d been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she’d been “born a man.” At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer (“He was the best-looking man I had ever seen”). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel—The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers’s literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood—and captured—the heart and longing of the outcast.
Here Comes Charlie Moon
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Author : Shirley Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-07
Here Comes Charlie Moon written by Shirley Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Charlie Moon's Auntie Jean runs a joke shop at the seaside. Charlie loves to go and stay there and try out the comic hats, masks, rubber spiders, fake flowers that squirt water, and cushions that squeak when you sit on them...even when his clever cousin Ariadne is staying, too.
The Charlie Moon Collection
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Author : Shirley Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-07
The Charlie Moon Collection written by Shirley Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Charlie gets into all sorts of sticky situations when his seaside summer holiday turns into a missing jewellery mystery - and detective Charlie finds himself in the middle of a muddle once again when a gang of bungling burglars threatens to spoil the Big Library Bonanza . . .
365 Bedtime Stories For Kids
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Author : Emma Landon
language : en
Publisher: XinXii
Release Date : 2023-07-27
365 Bedtime Stories For Kids written by Emma Landon and has been published by XinXii this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this captivating collection of bedtime stories, young readers will embark on a journey through 365 delightful tales, each designed to inspire imagination and fill their dreams with wonder. From brave knights and adventurous pirates to curious creatures and intergalactic explorations, this book offers a magical story for every night of the year. Share the joy of reading with your little ones as they embark on a new adventure every night before they drift off to sleep. Say goodbye to restless nights and enchanted dreams with these heartwarming and age-appropriate stories. Let the bedtime ritual become a treasured bonding experience between parents and children as you dive into the world of endless imagination and joy together.