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Sto caricando le informazioni... Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planetdi Eugene Walter
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Eugene Walter is one of my new passions. He always had a unique way of looking at the world. He crammed a lot into one life. I will search out more of this books. ( ) Why have I never heard of Eugene Walter? Or read any of his books? If they are anywhere as fun as this delightful memoir of his icredible life, they must be wonderful reads. Here is an eccentric Southrner from Mobile, Alabama, who becomes one of the first contributor/editors of the Paris Review in the 1950's, then goes to Rome to help edit an Italian literary revview and later acts in Fellini movies while sharing a palazzo with Leontyne Price. And on his merry (and maybe at times not so merry) journey through life he meets seemingly everyone worth meeting in the world of the Arts, from the aging lesbian Natalie Barney to Isak Dineson, Giuseppe Lampedusa, Katherine Ann Porter and Gore Vidal. Always the grasshopper and never the any, he could say at the end of his life, "I've had a great life and it all happened because I didn't plan any of it." Read & enjoy! this is an excellent memoir written by a person who lived an extraordinary life. It documents his flight from his home state, his expatriate life in new york, paris, and rome, and his eventual return and retirement to mobile, alabama. It is also a wonderful way to learn about the literary and intellectual life those cities in the 1950', 60's, and 70's. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDThis sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you've never heard of, is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century--enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price--and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition that has critics cheering. In his 76 years, Eugene Walter ate of "the ripened heart of life," to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. Walter savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the the l920s and '30s; stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York; was a ubiquitous presence in Paris's expatriate café society in the 1950s (where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception); and later, in 1960s Rome, participated in the golden age of Italian cinema. He was somehow everywhere, bringing with him a unique and contagious spirit, putting his inimitable stamp on the cultural life of the twentieth century."Katherine Clark...has edited Eugene Walter's oral history into a book as amazing as the man himself." JONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Milking the Moon has perfect pitch and flawlessly captures Eugene's pixilated wonderland of a life.... I love this book--and I couldn't put it down."PAT CONROY "Surprising and serendipitous."NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Anecdotes so frothy they ought to be served with a paper parasol over crushed ice."PEOPLE "A rare literary treat...the temptation is to wolf it down all at once, but it's much more satisfying to take your sweet time. The most unique oral history of the mid-twentieth century."TIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS) "An exceptionally fun read."ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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