Wayfaring At Waverly In Silver Lake

Author : James McCourt
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015055185816

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Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake by James McCourt Pdf

The beyond-great Hollywood star returns in seven pyrotechnic tales that become--somehow--a family saga spread over seventeen years. Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake encompasses friends, relations, and some passersby--as James McCourt cocks a cast eye on the seven deadly sins. Some samples . . . In a story evoking pride, fountainhead of the other deadly sins, Hollywood star Kaye Wayfaring, semiretired now atop the Silver Lake Hills, like Marion Davis at San Simeon, is at home during the 1984 Olympics, contemplating the translucent Norma Jean ("Nobody ever went at lines the way she did"), while over at the studio, her colleagues review the highlights of her career, culminating in her scandalous, headline-grabbing Oscar snub. Lust is represented by Kaye, now back in business on location in Ireland, starring as the wanton Irish pirate queen, Granuaile. Kaye is sheathed in the part, waiting for the light, in County Donegal, balancing visions of sacred and profane love, during the first (and always lustful) day of principal photography. Gluttony is personified by Kaye Wayfaring's son, Tristan, in the throes of adolescent meltdown, telling his beloved uncle the demented tale of his cross-country bus trip, forced landing, and rescue by south-of-L.A. beach bums, as he floats in and out of consciousness. And sin itself, as in "sinfully delicious," is exemplified by James McCourt's new book, "Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake, from beginning to end.

Author : James McCourt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871404589

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Lasting City: The Anatomy of Nostalgia by James McCourt Pdf

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 A profoundly American work with distinct echoes of Samuel Beckett, Lasting City hypnotizes with its symphonic lyricism. Enjoined by his dying mother to "tell everything," James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. The result is Lasting City, a gripping, uniquely McCourt invention: an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy’s funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and '50s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and Baudelaire, McCourt tells his own story, his mother's, his family's, and that of a lost New York, the lasting city. While ostensibly an account of the author's first seven years, Lasting City expands into a philosophical exploration of memory, perhaps as daring a statement on perception as anything since Faulkner—a kaleidoscopic unraveling of time. Mating fact with fantasy, or fantasy with fact, McCourt takes us from his deeply moving bedside account of his mother Catherine’s death to its traumatic aftermaths both real and imagined, which are—as McCourt tells it—equally real. He revisits the fantasy city of his youth, sometimes in soliloquy, as well as in the plaintive threnody of an older man who recounts his tales of woe to a Hindu cabdriver named Pramit Banarjee on Broadway, only hours after leaving his mother’s bedside. By celebrating our powerlessness over memory, he explores the darkly intense Irish-American family romance and the love-hate relationship between an unusually bright boy and his eternally wise mother, who harbored an excruciating guilty secret. With Joycean panache, McCourt then takes us to the wake, where his aunts recall their sister as if they are the Fates; he has a late-night dialogue with a former showgirl turned hash-slinging waitress; and he then anticipates his own death with the some of the most lyrical cadences in recent literature, wondering whether his ashes will be scattered on the waters of that little rivulet emerging from Central Park's Ramble, where in his grandfather’s day, real Venetian gondoliers, imported from Venice, plied their trade. Reflecting McCourt's belief that "the perfectly diagrammed sentence has become the secret weapon of nice people," Lasting City, written as much for the ear as the reading eye, unfolds in multiple voices that are at times like theater and at times the reverie of a mind lost in memory. It is a heartfelt aria to a lost time and to an eternal city.

Author : James Zeruk, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612195

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Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide by James Zeruk, Jr. Pdf

This is the first complete biography of actress Peg Entwistle, known as the "Hollywood Sign Girl" because of her suicide fall from the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932. It details her childhood, stage and film career, marriage and divorce, and her suicide and almost cult-like pop culture status today. Extensively researched and written with the complete cooperation of the Entwistle family, this work includes excerpts from interviews with Peg Entwistle's brother Milton and her cousin Helen Reid, both of whom recalled much of Peg's years living in Hollywood, her career and private life, and her final weeks. It also features many of Peg Entwistle's own words from extant letters to her family and newly discovered interviews with theatrical reporters. Nearly 30 previously unpublished images from the author's collection, the Entwistle family, and a number of other sources complete an intimate look at a life that was defined by far more than its famously unhappy end.

Author : James Schuyler
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174357

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What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler Pdf

James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despair—illuminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so well—to a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world. What's for Dinner? is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015002942739

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007059830

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The New Yorker by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Haas
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781593730505

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Forcing Nature by George Haas Pdf

Reprocessed with the latest computer technology, George Haas' superb photography evokes the sense of place that is Los Angeles' famously artificial landscape, most of which, given three weeks without watering, would dry up and blow away. This cutting-edge art photography in the grand tradition of both American documentary and landscape photography reprocessed with 21st century photography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2068 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111052911

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : James McCourt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393347722

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Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 by James McCourt Pdf

"A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."—New York Times Book Review A fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer Street has proven unrivaled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the era of the floodtide of AIDS, McCourt positions his own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. The result is a commanding and persuasive interlocking of personal, intellectual, and social history that will be read, dissected, and honored as the masterpiece it is for decades to come. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003; a Lambda Award finalist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015057977368

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The Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1784 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X004717835

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The Boston Globe Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175028563644

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Indexes
ISBN : UCD:31175029284224

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The New York Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079399278

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Irish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133694054

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The Recorder by Anonim Pdf