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Star-Bright Lie by Coleman Dowell (English) Hardcover Book
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9781564780225
- Book Title
- Star-Bright Lie
- ISBN
- 9781564780225
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Gender Issues
- Publication Name
- Star-Bright Lie
- Item Height
- 225 mm
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Item Weight
- 458 g
- Item Width
- 147 mm
- Number of Pages
- 165 Pages
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A Star-Bright Lie recounts the age-old story of the young provincial who comes to New York and is dazzled and betrayed by the bright lights of Broadway, but with a few kinks to the story: the provincial in this case was gay and would later develop into one of America's finest novelists. Coleman Dowell left Kentucky for New York in 1950 and spent the next decade trying to make it in the big city. With the same stylish verve and searching analysis that illuminate his fiction, Dowell recounts his frustrating experiences in show biz: early success as staff composer for a TV show (to which he was recommended by Tennessee Williams); next, touted as David Merrick's Golden Boy, a failed attempt to adapt O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! as a musical; several other attempts at a hit on Broadway; and finally, a sabotaged venture at making a musical of Carl Van Vechten's novel The Tattooed Countess. Throughout this memoir are unsparing portraits of Williams, Merrick, Van Vechten, Isak Dinesen, and others of the period. But the real star is Dowell himself: his paranoia, his bedeviled fascination with glamour, his lyric response to nature, his nostalgia for a Kentucky he'd fled and then reinvented, his Gothic sense of horror, his touchy pride, his passion for black men, his alienation from both heterosexual society and the two forms of gay life he'd known (from novelist Edmund White's foreword).
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Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13
9781564780225
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106933384
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
165 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Star-Bright Lie
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Gender Issues
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
225 mm
Item Weight
458 g
Item Width
147 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Topic
Literature
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