Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel

Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel
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Is being dead all that...??!!

worth reading

Fails to suck the reader in

Ambivalent

Takes a long time to go anywhere

Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel
Glen Duncan
Manufacturer: Grove Press, Black Cat
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With Death of an Ordinary Man, Glen Duncan continues his penetrating and innovative exploration of the supernatural with a novel that is far and away his most powerful and accomplished yet. Nathan Clark's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he finds out why he died. Privy now to the innermost thoughts and feelings of his family and friends-confessions that are raw, brutal, and unexpected-Nathan spends the day of his wake getting to know the living as he has never known them before: His father struggles with a legacy of family tragedy; his wife with the baggage of a doomed affair; his older daughter with her burgeoning sexuality and adolescent confusion. But why isn't Nathan's young daughter Lois at the wake? Who are the two strangers at the funeral, and why does their presence fill him with dread? Part detective story, part family portrait, Death of an Ordinary Man is an unflinching look at the margins of human experience, where the boundaries of fundamental feelings—love, grief, desire, shame, and hope—meet and mingle, and no motivation is as simple as it seems.

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Is being dead all that...??!!.......2007-08-21

I liked the book, but felt it was a long time coming to a conclusion. I don't know, I mean I liked the way the book progressed through the conceptual levels of death and its revelations vs. the living and it's stages of grieving, but there was just a bit missing for me. I have to praise Glen for attempting something like this novel, how can you know the experience of death without actually dying...and then trying to relate that to the counter experience of the survivors.

Deep stuff, I suggest reading it if you haven't.

worth reading.......2007-05-01

Initially i found this book hard to follow until i'd got past the funeral.I thought it was written too much in the abstract to be tolerable.But then i got the jist,then narrative and the point.Just as the ghost gropes for these things during the book.Things occur to people in the book above and through their stream of conciousness.(That's how its written) and one senses the dream-like delirium of the ghost in extention and beneath this stream because being dead he's already starting to trip out on a higher power/awareness (God?)or just on the pure dark infinity of space,on the way to really being dead.Against this back-drop facts occur to him,and so the plot builds, along with clearly condensing and collating the myriad motivations and expression etc.. of those in his family and people they knew to solve the mystery of his death and why he's a ghost.Apart from being well written,the book kept occuring to me that the ghost's mode of recall is like the creative process itself and how writers/artists get an intuitive grasp on the delirium of their imagination to throw up something concrete in art.

Fails to suck the reader in.......2006-08-13

However that's not to say it fails to suck in general. I'm the type of reader that gets pulled into a story and has to read a book cover to cover. I have to suffer through this one. Blah blah blah for the first half of the book... come on Glen, throw us a bone dude. He actually comes close to giving us a piece of the puzzle halfway when he teases us into thinking he's going to tell us how the daughter dies. Then bam it's a cliffhanger. I guess he thinks we'll sit through 100 more pages of pretentious whiny [...] before we get to it. 2 stars for this one. I wish I could get my ten bucks back.

Ambivalent.......2006-04-21

I echo Artic Fox's review. I'd just read "The Mercy of Thin Air" - also narrated by a dead person - and truly a haunting, moving book. It was clear from the beginning that "Death of An Ordinary Man" had a different agenda.

It was good enough for me to keep reading it, but only a chapter at a time. The narrative style - while certainly introspective and thought provoking (assuming you are terrifically moved by the book) - was rambling, and I skimmed places. Then I'd have to go back and read it because suddenly I'd be like, "Whaaaaa?"

It didn't really move me, but it was well written for that style. If you really dig the first few chapters, you'll love the book. If you find yourself iffy on it, or bored - you might as well put it down because I doubt it will grab you when you get further in.

Takes a long time to go anywhere.......2006-01-02

Several times as I read this story, I thought, "Yeah, that's exactly the way I feel!" But most of the time, I was rather impatient with the repetitiveness of the flashbacks and the somewhat overwritten, overwrought details of Nathan's story. Yes, the novel has some interesting insights, but one has to dig for them. Is it worth the effort? You'll have to answer that for yourself.

Ordinary idols.(Death of an Ordinary Man : A Novel)(Book Review) : An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Ordinary idols.(Death of an Ordinary Man : A Novel)(Book Review) : An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
J.A. Gray
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1795 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Predictable Romance........2007-06-24

If you're expecting a fast paced adventure novel like "Hunter's Pursuit," you won't find it in "Whitewater Rendezvous," Kim Baldwin's third novel. Although it's set against the background of an Alaskian kayaking vacation, the journey is not as thrilling as I expected considering the rapid speed excitement of Ms. Baldwin's first novel.

The story centers around Megan, a workaholic lesbian from New York who has to be convinced to take a vacation with her friends to Alaska, where she meets Chaz, a lesbian biology professor and one of the guides who leads the group on a whitewater kayak trip. Chaz is the spitting image of Megan's ex who left her for another woman, and so Megan immediately despises Chaz and gives her the cold shoulder. Chaz is so easy going and laid back I kept wondering when she was going to grow a back bone. Of course, these two will eventually get together in the end, there's no surprise there. I was hoping there would be some twists and turns along the way that would make their impending romance fun to watch unfold, but the rush of the whitewater was more of a trickle.

Kim Baldwin is an excellent writer. However, she should leave the romance novels to all the other lesbian novelists out there and do what she does best -- the action adventure with a bit of mystery thrown in. It's not that she can't write romance, just that there are few who can write the lesbian adventure novel like Ms. Baldwin that it's a waste for her not to go against the norm.

Originally, I gave this three stars because her third book did not measure up to the first. However, after reading a different author's work I realized just how good a writer Kim Baldwin actually is. So, I'm upgrading this to four stars because it's well written. But, it still loses a stars because it could have been so much better.

The Question of Personal Sacrifice.......2007-05-21

Opposites attract in this thrilling story, in which two women must discover if it's worth it to change their lives to be with each other.

Exciting Story about Choices.......2007-04-06

Whitewater Rendezvous is a good book. It tells the story of Chaz Herrick of Alaska, a Biology Professor and dedicated environmentalist, and Megan Maxwell of Chicago, an executive in the entertainment industry with a six-figure income. Other reviewers have laid out the plot, so I'll skip that part and go directly to my thoughts about the subject matter and how it's handled.

Because of their widely divergent value systems, the two protagonists could not possibly be any different. But when they meet, their mutual fascination is compelling. Eventually, as much as they struggle against the inevitable, fascination becomes enchantment and they fall in love. Although at first neither is ready to deal with the consequences of what has happened or to face the possibility of quantum shifts in their chosen lifestyles, they are finally forced to face a tough situation and tough choices.

A basic question both women must deal with (and one that many of us have struggled with at one time or another) is whether their love for one another justifies compromising the lives that they have built for themselves at great personal sacrifice. Can a person give up so much of herself and find happiness? It's a difficult situation to be in and a difficult situation to write about. Kudos to Ms. Baldwin for her thorough and insightful writing, as well as a wonderful love story.

Romantic Suspense.......2007-04-01

Chaz Herrick, Ph.D., is dedicated to her work as a biologist in the Alaskan wilderness. Megan Maxwell is entrenched as a power player in the high-stakes world of television news production. Whitewater Rendezvous is the beautifully told story of two intelligent, successful women whose lives are as different as night and day.

What happens when women like this are attracted to each other and ultimately find themselves falling in love? The author does an outstanding job of delving into the hearts and minds of both women as they navigate the conflicts of their respective lifestyles. I particularly liked watching Megan gradually change as she re-examines her value system.

The descriptions of the setting of the story, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, are captivating and powerful. As a preservationist-type myself, I appreciated the depiction of Chaz's love of and respect for the Alaskan environment, even when it is cruel and survival cannot be taken for granted.

This book has it all: an adventure story told against a backdrop of breathtaking wilderness, and a love story that is as emotionally sensitive as it is physically, well, hot, hot, hot. It's definitely a keeper for me.

Save your money.............2007-03-09

Bad, bad and bad. This book could have been condensed down to 5 chapters to tell the story. It was dragged out for no other reason then to make it a full book. I have enjoyed this authors other books, but this was was very disappointing. Save your money on this one ladies.

Mechwarior: Dark Age #10: Flight of the Falcon(A BattleTech Novel) (Mechwarrior, 10)
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Mechwarior: Dark Age #10: Flight of the Falcon(A BattleTech Novel) (Mechwarrior, 10)
Victor Milan
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Clan Jade Falcon returns to destroy the Steel Wolves once and for all. But their true goal is Skye, the capital of the Republic.

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"A Clan Jade Falcon force has struck into Steiner space on a mission to eradicate the Steel Wolves - but their real goal is to take Terra, the heart of The Republic. It's up to Tara Campbell, hero of The Republic, to unify the disparate forces sent to Skye into an army capable of stopping the Jade Falcon's drive toward the cradle of humankind, or to die trying..."

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"Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life…. Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity."

In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.

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To Carlos, with gratitude.......2007-06-22

Carlos Castaneda was one of the most controversial writers of the twentieth century. Some in academia branded him a fraud for claiming his stories were biographical rather than fiction, while lauding him as a great novelist for exposing a mass audience to otherwise inaccessible philosophical abstractions they claimed were largely plagiarized. Each of his works is a piece of a larger puzzle, which makes it impossible to critique any one book without addressing the larger context into which it fits.

His first two books, "Teachings of Don Juan" and "A Separate Reality" describe experiences induced by ingesting psychotropic hallucinogenics prepared by a Yaqui Indian shaman from Sonora, Mexico he called don Juan Matus, and accounted for his becoming a guru to a generation seeking short cuts to spiritual enlightenment, as well as his lifelong interest in the relationship between perception and reality, a theme now explored in many popular books on consciousness and quantum physics. Unfortunately, these books remain his best selling works, in spite of Castaneda refuting their importance in his later works. Readers would be best served to skip these and avoid the risk of being turned off to Castaneda and missing the more stimulating works that followed.

His third and fourth works were "Journey to Ixtlan" and "Tales of Power." In Ixtlan he admits to over-estimating the value of his drug experiences, which caused him to overlook the more profound teachings of don Juan which became the focus of future writings. What emerges is a spiritual discipline dating back to the Pre-Colombian Toltec sorcerers of Latin America, culminating with don Juan's departure from our world, effectively ending Castaneda's direct affiliation.

In his fifth and sixth works "Second Ring of Power" and "Eagles Gift" Castaneda suffers strange flashbacks of what seem to be memory fragments of events he is unable to fit into any logical time sequence. In his seventh and eighth works, "Fire From Within" and "Power of Silence," Castaneda succeeds in reconstructing his lost memories, which derive from teachings previously administered by don Juan while Castaneda was in a "heightened" state of awareness.

In books nine and ten, "Art of Dreaming" and "Active Side of Infinity," Castaneda focuses on what he describes as inorganic predators from another dimension, some having the power to imprison humanity in "ordinary reality" so they can feed on the dark emotional energies we produce when succumbing to the negative thoughts they insert into our minds.

In later years several seemingly substantiating works appeared by two of Castaneda's female apprentices, Taisha Abelar and Florinda Donner-Grau. In addition, two scathing exposés were also published by two of his ex-wives. The first, "Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda" by first wife, Margaret Runyon, offers little corroboration, since her marriage pre-dates the time when the bulk of Castaneda's adventures were claimed to have occurred. While steadfast that Castaneda was a sorcerer, she doubts the existence of don Juan, even claiming authorship of many of the concepts Castaneda ascribed to him.

The second, and more credible work, is "Sorcerer's Apprentice," by well-known writer Amy Wallace, daughter of the late best selling novelist Irving Wallace. Here again, we find little corroboration since the time of the events she describes is well after the period when Castaneda's relationship with don Juan is alleged to occur. What the book does provide is a troubling look inside Castaneda's final years, a picture of descent into what seems sexual addiction and possibly madness, leaving one to wonder if Castaneda was just one cup of cool-aid short of a Jonestown.

Many have asked why I put any stock whatsoever in Castaneda. A story from my autobiography, "The Vortex" may shed some light. A year before Castaneda published his first book I had an experience that would remain a mystery until Castaneda published "Power of Silence" twenty years later.

For a brief time, in my youth, I became a practicing Muslim, meticulously performing the complex prayer ritual five times a day. Then one night, sitting in my car, frustrated and complaining at not being able to find the address of my next sales appointment, something inside me snapped. It was as if some part of me had disconnected from my body and assumed control, lecturing me about my lack of discipline. A profound calm settled over me, rendering me simultaneously detached and engaged. For two days my sales figures soared. It was as if no one could say no to me. On the evening of the second day I decided to put my new state of being to the acid test by visiting my parents. Their behavior was so uncharacteristically supportive I hardly recognized them. It was enough to convince me that I was now living in an altered reality. But by the following morning I had returned to "normal." So distracting had this event been that I completely forgot to perform my Muslim prayers, and in fact, never did so again.

Twenty years later, in a chapter of "Power of Silence" entitled "Place of No Pity" Castaneda describes a very similar experience. In the aftermath of the event don Juan explains that humans are like televisions stuck on a channel called "self-preoccupation," lacking the energy to tune into any of the vast array of other channels available to us. To change channels, he explains, we first need to accumulate energy, by practicing rituals that are deliberate, precise and repetitious. Do this long enough and eventually our stored energy precipitates a shift to a channel where self-importance and self pity become impossible. Once this happens we connect with the force that controls the entire universe, a force don Juan called "intent," and everything can be bent to our will and even more channels can be opened, assuming we remember to keep practicing the rituals that save our energy.

This one realization alone was enough to inspire me to dedicate my autobiography "To Carlos, with gratitude."

Maxwell Austin van Lack, Author of The Vortex: A True Story of Passion and Karma

The master gives his all. .......2007-01-10

You have to read all the previous works to see how simple it is, otherwise you miss the profundity. He could have been a trickster at one point, but that ws long ago. Don't even dream of starting Castaneda with these later books. Take the time to ground yourself with his earlier works.

Carlos Castaneda's "Active Side of Infinity".......2007-01-04

This is a wonderful book giving many details not chronicled in his previous books of his encounters with his guide don Juan Matus. He wrote this book just before his death, and it gives the reader a great inside glimpse or more into his mind-set at that point in his enlightenment process. Much of what he details in this book happened much earlier in his process. I truly enjoyed reading this and all of the other books I have previously read that he wrote earlier, but this book is one that I intend to keep for further reference and rereading.

enthralling.......2006-06-04

After reading all Castaneda's other works, this one seems to tie them all together in a most favorable way. Read start to finish, randomly, backwards or just a bit at a time. All of Don Juan Matus' remarks are truly magical.

The Active Side of Infinity.......2006-03-16

I have read and enjoyed all of the books written by Carlos Castaneda, with the exception of The Second Ring of Power. However, for the first time, in his book The Active Side of Infinity, I felt that Carlos Castaneda was revealing more about himself, than he had ever done in any of his previous works. I found this book to be an excellent synopsis of his life both before his apprenticeship and during his apprenticeship with don Juan. If you, like me, have been bedazzled by all of the information contained in his earlier works, you will find this a marvellous book for consolidating much of the information that you have read but not truly internalised.

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The Active Side of Infinity
Carlos Castaneda
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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
Dr. W. Harry Plantinga
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The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.

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Nice recipes
Found some terrific recipes in here!

Great Whole Grain Breads
Beatrice A. Ojakangas
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The crust, the texture, the aroma, the taste-a hearty whole grain bread makes the meal or, in the case of the cheese breads, blinis, or calzone that Beatrice Ojakangas serves up, becomes the meal. The seasoned baker and the passionate amateur, the connoisseur and the simply famished will find plenty to celebrate in Ojakangas's classic bread-making book.

Whether it's traditional Finnish rye, old-fashioned corn bread, scones, croissants, pretzels, or popovers, the perfect bread for any occasion can be found in this book, along with companionable advice for making it perfectly every time. For the baker with no time to spare, Ojakangas includes a large assortment of fast and easy breads.

With more than 250 sweet-and-savory recipes, easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques for mixing and kneading, and special hints for working with whole grains, Great Whole Grain Breads should find a place in every baker's kitchen.

Beatrice Ojakangas is the author of dozens of cookbooks, including The Great Scandinavian Baking Book (1999), Scandinavian Feasts (2001), and The Great Holiday Baking Book (2001), all published by Minnesota. She has appeared on television's Baking with Julia Child and Martha Stewart's Living, and has written articles for many newspapers and magazines, including Cooking Light, Family Circle, and Bon Appetit. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

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Nice recipes.......2004-11-10

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For an excellent cookbook on how to bake scones, corn bread, croissants, pretzels, popovers, quick breads, tortillas, pizza dough or traditional loaves, then this may be the book for you! With more than 250 recipes for both sweet and savory breads, check out this book.

Beatrice Ojakangas is a chef and author to numerous cookbooks. Some titles include: "The Great Scandinavian Baking Book", "Scandinavian Feasts: Celebrating Traditions throughout the Year" and "The Great Holiday Baking Book". She has also appeared on television with Julia Child, on her television show: "Baking with Julia Child", as well as also being on Martha Stewart's Living. She has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines including Cooking Light, Family Circle, and Bon Appetit. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

The recipes in this book are easy-to-follow. Ojakangas gives excellent step-by-step tips on how to mix and knead the dough and how to handle whole grains. In the introduction, there are numerous tips to help the novice cook develop a passion for baking breads. There is even a section on Flour sources, in case you are unable to locate a specific flour in your neighborhood.

The book is broken down in chapters depending on the type of breads you are looking for, including: stir-and-pour breads, no-knead casserole breads, whole wheat breads, rye breads, oat breads, barley breads, cornbreads, multiple grain breads, buckwheat breads, triticale breads, sourdough breads, coffee breads and sweet rolls, whole grain breads with fruit, whole grain breads with vegetables, cheese breads, little breads, flatbreads, quick breads and more!

Despite no color photographs in this book, there are some illustrations to help show you what to do.

The recipes all sound delicious, and my favorites are: apple-filled brioche, seven-grain bread, malted Christmas bread, English farmhouse loaf and orange-rye casserole bread.

If you are looking for an all-purpose book on baking any type of bread, then I suggest you pick this book.

Found some terrific recipes in here!.......2003-11-15

I came across this book at the public library, and I brought it home because the bread recipes looked wholesome and delicious... and because I was intrigued by the casserole bread chapter. I never saw so many recipes using that method! I tried a casserole rye/potato bread and we all thought it was delicious, and I esp. appreciated the lack of kneading it really saves on time.
This book is now in my wish list for Christmas.... I want more time to pick and choose than the library can give... there is nothing like the smell of fresh bread baking!

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Anyone can make stylish cushions, bolsters, and accent pillows at a fraction of the cost of decorator versions with more than 20 inspirational designs in Waverly (R) at Home: Pillows, published by Meredith (R) Books.

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A detailed guide to every aspect of renovating, repairing or improving your bathroom--from information on floor plans and working with contractors to plumbing and aesthetic issues such as lighting and ventilation, tiles and painting. Illustrated with numerous photos and drawings, it features sample floor plans for a variety of spaces and budgets. Also gives essential information on how to select and work with the right professionals--contractors, carpenters and plumbers.

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Most useful bathroom remodel book I've found.......2004-11-20

This book says that it aims to be realistic...and it does. After looking at a bunch of other bathroom remodel books, it seemed impossible to design for 7.5' x 5', which is the actual size of my bathroom. Instead, this book acknowledges that this is the average size allowed for bathrooms, particularly before 1953. This book covers all the systems involved in a bathroom remodel, and gives practical advice on which options to choose, then tells how to get it done. It starts with basic terminology, so that you can convey accurate information while talking shop to the pros. It lists prices; while outdated, this is still valuable information, as you can get the feel for the relative cost of each feature. This book is the blueprint for my bathroom remodel...I won't start it without this bible in my hand.

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Tom Philbin's Costwise Bathroom Remodeling: A Guide to Renovating or Improving Your Bath
Tom Philbin
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Erte at Ninety-Five, The Complete New Graphics, The Extended Edition
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Erte at Ninety-Five, The Complete New Graphics, The Extended Edition

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Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of America's finest comics, with a 20-year string of Broadway and vaudeville successes including The Lady Slavey, Miss Prinnt, Higgledy Piggledy, The Man in the Moon, and Tillie's Nightmare. She starred with Charlie Chaplin in the first ever feature-length comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance and later in Min and Bill for which she won an Academy Award. A brilliant comedienne in body, timing, inflection and reactions, her talents far exceeded the expectations of slapstick, and her movies earned sums far greater than those of Garbo, or Harlow, or even Gable.

This work examines Dressler's life from vaudeville to talkies. Based on extensive research and interviews with Dressler's surviving friends, co-stars and colleagues, including Maureen O'Sullivan, Jackie Cooper and Anita Page, it details her public and personal successes and failures. A listing of her stage appearances, vocal recordings and films is included.

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The evening star of Marie Dressler.......2003-12-30

Louis B. Mayer once said that the three greatest actors who ever worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were Greta
Garbo, Spencer Tracy and Marie Dressler. Beloved actress Marie Dressler (1868-1934) was my writing
obsession for four years. How did this delightfully idiosyncratic woman overcome so many demons in
herlifetime? How did she shape her epoch and how did it shape her? Known simply as "Marie" to millions of
fans, she is a fascinating creature of American popular culture. She is most known today for her amazing
popularity in early talkies such as MIN AND BILL (Academy Award, Best Actress, 1930/31), TUGBOAT
ANNIE and DINNER AT EIGHT. In fact, the large, unlovely sixtysomething year old was the number one
box-office attraction of the early Depression. Her earlier years were equally compelling. In the 1880s, she fled
an abusive father by joining a horse drawn carriage pulling a third-rate theater company. Later she charmed
Broadway and was the comic foil to legendary stage stars Lillian Russell, Eddie Foy and Weber & Fields. She
co-starred with Charlie Chaplin in Mack Sennett's 1914 hit TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE, the first
feature length comedy every filmed. She was a passionate advocate of women's suffrage and the American
participation in World War I. In 1919, she co-founded Actors Equity. Her career took a nosedive in the 1920s
and she was broke and pitiable at the time of her rediscovery by the brilliant screenwriter Frances Marion. Her
final makeover as warmly embraced mega-star remains one of Hollywood's great comeback stories.
Researching the life of Marie Dressler took me to screening rooms, dusty archives and quiet libraries all over
the United States and Canada. In addition to interviews with her surviving colleagues at MGM, I had moving
conversations with Joseph Newman, assistant director on MIN AND BILL and DINNER AT EIGHT, and
Grace Ruthrruff, the generous nurse who was at Marie's deathbed in 1934. It is my hope that this biography will
help restore Marie Dressler's legacy as one of the twentieth century's great entertainers.

Bullseye!.......1999-08-30

Ever since Marie Dressler knocked my socks off when I first saw DINNER AT EIGHT I have been frustrated that most biographical sketches of her life recycled the same tantalizing ten pages or so of information, and although Betty Lee's competing biography was welcome, it left as many questions as answers. This book finally does this fabulous star justice with comprehensive research on her now-obscured early life; loving, intelligent coverage of all her extant films; savvy, well-written documentation of her stage career; and endlessly perceptive reconstruction of what Dressler was like as human being. Catching Dressler in a rare showing of her films EMMA and TUGBOAT ANNIE in San Francisco some years back and espying a notice that this biography was being written, I spent years anticipating it, and was never disappointed in the slightest. Truly a bravura performance -- Dressler lives again. But WHEN will more of her work be released on video?

MARIE DRESSLER: A BIOGRAPHY, WITH A LISTING OF MAJOR STAGE PERFORMANCES, A FILMOGRAPHY AND A DISCOGRAPHY.

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MARIE DRESSLER: A BIOGRAPHY, WITH A LISTING OF MAJOR STAGE PERFORMANCES, A FILMOGRAPHY AND A DISCOGRAPHY.
Matthew. Kennedy
Manufacturer: McFarland & Co.,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7KGJK

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