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Star Bright Lie
Coleman Dowell
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Description for Star Bright Lie
Hardback. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780225
SKU
V9781564780225
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Ref
99-15
About Coleman Dowell
Edmund White (b. Ohio, USA, 1940) is the author of many critically acclaimed books, the most recent being "The Flaneur". He was made an officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and won a literary prize from the Festival of Deauville. He now teaches at Princeton University. His acclaimed autobiography, "My Lives", was published by Bloomsbury in ... Read more
Reviews for Star Bright Lie
A witty, engaging account... [A] sparkling memoir.
Publishers Weekly Embedded within this mad, anxiety-provoking book are assumptions about success which help to explain Dowell's anguishingly contradictory nature, and which reveal, finally, much about the meaning of success in America, and in New York in particular.
Times Literary Supplement Entertaining in itself, A Star-Bright Lie also provides a good ... Read more
Publishers Weekly Embedded within this mad, anxiety-provoking book are assumptions about success which help to explain Dowell's anguishingly contradictory nature, and which reveal, finally, much about the meaning of success in America, and in New York in particular.
Times Literary Supplement Entertaining in itself, A Star-Bright Lie also provides a good ... Read more