The Girl From Dream City
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The Girl From Dream City
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Author : Linda Leith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-10
The Girl From Dream City written by Linda Leith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-10 with categories.
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books. It's the life that many young women dream of: education in some of Europe's most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist, translator and literary curator. But the start of Linda Leith's journey is anything but idyllic. The daughter of a glamorous mother and a charming left-wing doctor, she is never told of her father's psychiatric breakdown or his subsequent shock therapy for what was then called manic depression. As this secret festers, Leith's father uproots the family to various European cities as he reinvents himself as a corporate executive, eventually moving across the Atlantic to Montreal. It's there, in her first year of university, that Leith is inspired by Madame de Staël: a writer and salonnière, banished from Paris by Napoleon himself. With none of Staël's advantages--no wealth, no social status, no château on Lake Geneva--Leith can scarcely imagine a salon, but she is drawn to Paris, and dreams of becoming a writer. This dream fuels her education in London, her marriage and writing in Budapest, and--finally--her journey back to Montreal where she meets a community of writers and readers who she works with to transform the city's literary scene. As Leith publishes, translates, and curates, she also comes to terms with her troubled father and the secrets of her childhood. A luscious read, this book will rivet readers of Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain and Tara Westover's Educated , or anyone who has dreamed of building a cultural life.
Dream City
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Author : Douglas Unger
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2024-10-08
Dream City written by Douglas Unger and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-08 with Fiction categories.
In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor “C. D.” Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing, is gradually losing his moral and existential compass. Working on The Strip during an era when Sin City’s population growth was outpacing any other place in America, C. D. climbs the industry ladder while modeling himself after a Pyramid Resorts top executive, Lance Sheperd. C. D.’s professional choices lead him down a tumultuous road, as Sheperd, a complex and, at times, visionary figure, pilots his ventures through the tangled wheeling and dealing of finance and corporate politics straight into catastrophe. As the story progresses, C. D. comes to understand how his personal losses and the losses of his cohort of hard driving executives on the make—especially the tragic life of his work partner, Greta Olsson, the only woman to break through into their male dominated world—are a result of the make-believe environment he has helped to create, a world where representation replaces reality. Hoping to piece together his faltering marriage and family relationships, C. D. must find a new path as he struggles to hold onto his dreams. In this fictionalized version of the city of glittering lights, author Douglas Unger pits the ideologies of marketing and consumerism in the casino economy of America against the erosion of individual and humane values that success in that world demands. Unger reveals the hard truth that Las Vegas, a blue-collar town considered by many to be “the most honest city,” can be a temple for self-deceptions, emblematic of a service economy that knows the price of everything and too often the value of little else. Dream City becomes both a love song and an elegy for Las Vegas that sets it apart from any other literary novel previously written about this global entertainment attraction that in so many ways represents postmodern America. Sooner or later, the challenge that faces everyone is to discover what matters most, and to learn how to bet on the better angels of our natures.
America S Dream City Of Youth
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Author : Leonard de Vries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
America S Dream City Of Youth written by Leonard de Vries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
Broadway Actors In Films 1894 2015
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Author : Roy Liebman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-02-07
Broadway Actors In Films 1894 2015 written by Roy Liebman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Performing Arts categories.
Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films. This book details the careers of 300 performers who went from stage to screen in all genres of film. A few made only a single movie, others hundreds. Each entry includes highlights of the performer's career, a list of stage appearances and a filmography.
American Musical Theater
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Author : Gerald Bordman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-01
American Musical Theater written by Gerald Bordman 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 2001-03-01 with Music categories.
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its original publication in 1978. In this third edition, he offers authoritative summaries on the general artistic trends and developments for each season on musical comedy, operetta, revues, and the one-man and one-woman shows from the first musical to the 1999/2000 season. With detailed show, song, and people indexes, Bordman provides a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production.
American Musical Theatre
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Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
American Musical Theatre written by Gerald Martin Bordman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Music categories.
Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed according to names of shows, songs, and people involved, for easy searching and browsing. Chapters range from the "Prologue," which traces the origins of American musical theater to 1866, through several "intermissions" (for instance, "Broadway's Response to the Swing Era, 1937-1942") and up to "Act Seven," the theatre of the twenty-first century. This last chapter covers the dramatic changes in musical theatre since the last edition published-whereas Fosse, a choreography-heavy revue, won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical, the 2008 award went to In the Heights, which combines hip-hop, rap, meringue and salsa unlike any musical before it. Other groundbreaking and/or box-office-breaking shows covered for the first time include Avenue Q, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot, Wicked, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, and Spring Awakening. Discussion of these shows incorporates plot synopses, names of principal players, descriptions of scenery and costumes, and critical reactions. In addition, short biographies interspersed throughout the text colorfully depict the creative minds that shaped the most influential musicals. Collectively, these elements create the most comprehensive, authoritative history of musical theatre in this country and make this an essential resource for students, scholars, performers, dramaturges, and musical enthusiasts.
Men Of A Kind
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Author : Kaveri Gopakumar
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Men Of A Kind written by Kaveri Gopakumar and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Fiction categories.
The story is about the life of a girl named Nita and the men she meets in her life. Nita is a fearless girl, a go-getter, who believes in herself. She is an aspiring photographer who moves to Mumbai for her career. Nitas story is about love, lust, romance and chance.
The Dreaming Girl
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Author : Roberta Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Dreaming Girl written by Roberta Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Illusion (Philosophy) categories.
Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In THE DREAMING GIRL, Roberta Allen's exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. " A] literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy" Ken Foster, The Village Voice. "A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed... The girl's jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist" Mary Mackey, The American Book Review. "Roberta Allen transmits the pain and compensating strangeness of living in vignettes as urgent and enigmatic as telegrams" John Ashbery."
Small Town Girl With Big City Dreams
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Author : Sabrina Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-27
Small Town Girl With Big City Dreams written by Sabrina Gonzalez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-27 with categories.
I hope you enjoy this compilation of my books. I am just a small town girl with big city dreams believing anything is possible if I keep God first. This compilation includes; Small Town Gossip, She Knew Too Much, McVille Mayhem, Quieting The Storm and After The Rain.
The Dream City
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Author : Rose Virginia Stewart Berry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Dream City written by Rose Virginia Stewart Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Art categories.
This small volume is a detailing and discussion of the architecture, murals and sculpture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.