Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited, Plimpton George

Автор: Plimpton, George
Название: Truman Capote
ISBN: 0385491735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385491730
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 17660.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a position best exemplified by his still legendary Black and White Ball. Truman truly knew everyone, and now the people who knew him best tell his remarkable story to bestselling author and literary lion, George Plimpton.

Using the oral-biography style that made his Edie (edited with Jean Stein) a bestseller, George Plimpton has blended the voices of Capote's friends, lovers, and colleagues into a captivating and narrative. Here we see the entire span of Capote's life, from his Southern childhood, to his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of In Cold Blood, the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: C.Z. Guest, Katharine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Huston, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others.

Full of wonderful stories, startlingly intimate and altogether fascinating, this is the most entertaining account of Truman Capote's life yet, as only the incomparable George Plimpton could have done it.

Автор: Stein, Jean Plimpton, George
Название: Edie
ISBN: 1845950631 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845950637
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11430.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Born into a family of wealthy and patrician New Englanders, Edie Sedgwick became, in the 1960s, both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Edie was outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful. This book is an American fable on an epic scale, the story of a short, crowded and vivid life.