Jingle Bells, Pierpont James Lord

Автор: Pierpont Claudia Roth
Название: American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
ISBN: 0374536945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374536947
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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The stories of America's most extraordinary strivers and their failures and triumphs

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age.

Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be.

American Rhapsody offers a history of twentieth-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people, and the immense difficulty of this human experiment.

Автор: Pierpont Claudia Roth
Название: Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
ISBN: 0374534934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534936
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A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work

Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, "Goodbye, Columbus," which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of "Portnoy's Complaint "in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in "The Ghost Writer "ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties--"The Counterlife," "Patrimony," "Operation Shylock," "Sabbath's Theater," "American Pastoral," "The Human""Stain"--Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now.
Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. "Roth Unbound "is not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art.
Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for "The New Yorker," has known Roth for nearly a decade.""Her carefully researched and gracefully written account""is filled with remarks from Roth himself, ""drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are""insights and anecdotes that will change the way""many readers perceive this most controversial and""galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married""Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, ""after the uproar over "Portnoy," working to help writers""from Eastern Europe and to get their books known""in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish--and the later, feminist--attacks on his work. Here""are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the""full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here""is Roth at work and at play.
"Roth Unbound" is a major achievement--a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.