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THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY
In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time . . .
Customer Reviews:
Verne as prophet rather than novelist.......2006-11-18
This was a long-lost Manuscript of Verne's; it was his second science fiction novel and one of his most pessimistic (probably because he had not yet achieved his full success in life). It was never fleshed out into a full length novel due to its lack of commercial prospects (his publisher rightly assumed that people were looking for more positive views of the future in his day, just as his positive visions of the future are unlikely to become best sellers today) Via extrapolation of the technology and social conditions of his day, he managed to make any number of amusingly accurate predictions as to how the future (1960s paris) would look. "The future," in fact, looked an awful lot like he said it would. Lots of high rises, international trade causing more world harmony, lots of "service industry" dominating the economy, huge universities (something that was not at all obvious in his day), elevators, keyboard computers, the end of classics and rhetoric as the central feature of higher education, fax machines, cars, industrialization of the arts, the metro: all predictions which more or less came true.
Of course, his metro was above ground like the T in Boston rather than the underground metro they have in Paris today. And his cars ran on compressed air and "carbolic acid" and such. And while weapons of mass destruction "rendered war ridiculous, and France finding it laughable, disarmed," war isn't so ridiculous that France has disarmed completely.
Amusing things he missed: ball point pens, databases, "industrialization" of pop culture, and the manner in which the arts became barbarous. He was convinced that all artistic things in the future would be machine-like; frankly I think that machine-art is one of the few areas in which modern art occasionally remains interesting or relevant. The main character of this novella was a sort of hippy, except that instead of cultivating the childish nonsense that hippies did in the 1960s, his character cultivated latin poetry.
I think people read a lot more into his "prophecies" than was appropriate. This was apparently a runaway best-seller in 1994 Paris. I would imagine that lots of pious french types read a lot into his predictions, moaning that it was as bad as he said and worse. In fact, life in the 1960s were a lot worse and a much, much better than Verne predicted. It was worse in that, instead of global trade issuing a new era of peace and making armies irrelevant, trade has really only made war between the western european nations unnecessary. Quite an accomplishment after countless millenia of slaughter (Europe has not been as peaceful as it is now since the Roman empire). It was worse in that, instead of poetry named "electric harmonies" and music called "a grand fantasy on the liquefaction of carbonic acid" we had the insipid poetry of Alan Ginsberg and Maya Angelou (or whatever the French were reading), and the vulgar, grody pop music of Serge Gainsbourg and the Monkeys. It was much better in that, while the old arts of opera, drama, painting, novels, symphony and so on are not "pop-art" as they were in the old days, but they are still well-supported hobbies of the bourgeoise and upper classes. It is much better in that, instead of starving all the people who could not deal with soul-killing 30 hour work weeks as happened in Verne's book, socialistic government agencies kept enough such idle people around to have street riots in 1968 and cause the downfall of the 4th republic (Verne assumed it would be an empire of Napoleon IV).
OK, maybe that part wasn't so much better.
It was better in that bestsellers were not "on the lubrication of driveshafts" but were "a history of sexuality by foucault" (one could read that as another form of driveshaft lubrication). I would imagine most of his 1994 I would imagine most of his 1994 readers were not as choked up as Verne was on the loss of the tradition of the duel on the champs de mars and ancient martial traditions: though I rather share his sentiments; as his lead character quotes Stendhal, "fighting ennobles the soul."
A cute little read.
I can see why it was never released........2006-04-05
Verne's publisher called this "lackluster and lifeless," so it was locked up in a safe and never released.
Reading it, I can understand why. The characters are boring and predictable, and the dialogue is flat. Verne's vision of the future is not particularly intriguing.
Really, this book is only worth reading for Verne's sometimes prophetic predictions. He imagines the elevator, the automobile and fax machines, for example.
Not horrible, but not up to the standard I expect from Verne.
Verne was a genius!.......2005-10-20
Just finished reading it for the first time, and would (highly) recommend it to anyone.
I wonder what Verne would write were he alive today, looking at the world as it exists now.
He would no doubt prompt us to look at things in ways we might not otherwise.
He was a truly gifted writer, thinker and social observer.
Lost.......2005-09-26
If only it had stayed lost, maybe surviving only in rumor and speculation, we could have imagined the great things Verne might have predicted. We could have wondered at the clever plot twists. Just out of reach, it could have been great.
But in our hands, apart from his reporting on the newest of the new inventions of his time (e.g. a rudimentary fax/telegraph machine), we can only follow the thin, strident plot and marvel at the visions not seen.
Of course if you love Verne, you have to read it. Just lower your expectations a bit. There's no Captain Nemo here.
Paris AD 1960: A World of Cold Marvels.......2005-01-01
The story of the discovery of Jules Verne's novel PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is the stuff of fantasy: The 1863 unpublished manuscript was discovered lying in a safe some 130 years later.
It tells the tale of one Michel Dufrenoy, winner of a prize in poetry at a time when poetry, indeed literature, means nothing. Thousands of books are still published, but they are all engineering and scientific works with sesquipedalian titles. The real hero, however, is the city of Paris circa 1960: a city of engineering marvels with such devices as elevators, fax machines, underground trains, and gas-powered cabs. (Curiously, this future world also contains quill pens and giant accounting ledger books with scaffolding.)
Verne's vision of the future is endlessly fascinating, especially as so many of his predictions have come true. Where the young Verne faltered, however, is his failure to display the rambunctious 19th century optimism of his later works. Instead of a triumphant tone, we have a world in which the individual who refuses to be a cog in the great works of society becomes marginalized and ultimately crushed. PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is a young writer's experiment that was rejected by publishers of the day, ostensibly because its vision was too far-fetched (it isn't), but oddly not because it was pervaded with a feeling of doom (which it certainly is).
The book makes interesting reading for its insights, but fails as a story. The hero and his struggling friends are sadly short-changed.
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Books 7 and 8 of the Elric Saga
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Super Reader.......2007-08-30
This novel was published in the late eighties, but comes in around second, chronologically.
Elric is in trouble, and when he arrives at the mysterious city of Quarzhasaat he is easily convinced to undergo a quest in return for aid.
He must find the Pearl at the Heart of the World. It ain't that easy though, as it is in a fortress. But Elric is still Elric, and having recovered his strength, he still has Stormbringer along with his other talents.
One of my favorite Elric Books.......2004-09-20
Takes place back in time before Stormbringer killed a loved one. I would read it after the first or second Elric book personally. Elric's father's shade is introduced, and it also should be read before The Dreamthief's Daughter. I really need to reread the other books before making a judgement, but would probably rate this as my 3rd favorite Elric book. I like Moorcock's books because I can get thru them quickly, yet they are still magnificent works that are different than 90% of the fantasy out there. I like his writing style better than about every other fantasy/science fiction author except maybe George R.R. Martin. But I don't get that soap opera pull from Moorcock; I can leave his books for a while and know they will always be there when I need a new adventure to escape into. While Tolkien appeals to a wide range of readers, most Moorcock works wouldn't appeal to religious folk, or anyone who doesn't like reading about death. While Elric constantly tries to save humanity in his own way, his sustenance comes to him by sacrificing souls to his patron Duke of Hell - Arioch.
A Must-Read for Elric Fans!.......2000-04-02
I read this book as the seventh book, but it really is supposed to be read earlier, after the first or second. It fits in nicely after either one of those, really. But regardless of when you read it, it is a great book!
Elric has to go inside a girl's dreams to regain a pearl that the countryside is fighting for. It has "dreamcatchers" and stuff like that in it...really a lot like american-indian and african aborigine tribal stuff. I really liked it, and I hope that if you are an Elric fan you'll pick it up!
Better to read the other Elric novels first.......1999-11-16
This book took a while to get into,but once it got going it definatly had potential. After reading books by Terry Brooks, Mark Anthony and Anne Mcarfrey, this book was quite a change. At times the way that Michael Moorcock described things was decidedly vague and lacking using words like "stuff." Another thing i found was that the adventure seemed to roll on by and there was a lack of depth to the adventure but in all honesty the fight scenes were worth the wate. I certainly enjoyed the novel once it got going and although hard to follow at times it left me with a sence of light hearted entertainment. Maybe the book would have made more sence if i had read the other Elric novels before this one. A nice twist at the end but there was definatly an opening for another book, does Elric ever return to lay his claim to the Ruby Throne?
Great!! Finally another Elric book.......1999-08-08
This book adds a great chapter to the Elric Saga.. Elric ventures into a child's dream's to uncover a giant pearl., He has been poisned and forced into the mission, by a power hungry politician. He retrives the Pearl, Gets the antidote, and well I don't want to give away everything.. This book is a Must READ!!!
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The Fortress Of The Pearl
Manufacturer: Gollancz
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ASIN: 0575045159 |
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The Fortress of the Pearl
Manufacturer: Gollancz
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An Elric novel.
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- A difficult book to read but still good
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Defcon One
Joe Weber
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A difficult book to read but still good.......2004-03-30
I don't know why the author did it, but he stuffed so much military jargon and slang into the book that I found myself lost on a number of occasions. The story was very interesting. A really good WWWIII book. I would have given it a 4 had I been able to comprehend what the author was talking about.
DEFCON One.......2003-03-09
Joe Weber's first novel is a techno-thriller classic. The story, involving war between the Soviet Union and the United States has been done numerous times but Weber manages to carry it out with orginality. The Russians decide to launch a preemptive strike against the West and the only one who can tell the Americans what's going on is a CIA operative inside the Kremlin. Throughout the book the story shifts from the American and Russian presidents, to scenes of military action, and to a CIA officer trying to get the operative out of Russia. After this book Weber has written some of the finest military thrillers and anyone who likes Clancy will immediately enjoy Weber.
defcon one.......2002-11-15
Defcon One is written by Joe Weber, the author of the book Shadow Flight. On a scale of 1-10 I give this book a 9.5, not a 10, due to the fact that the book skips between all the events happening at any given time. For instance the point of view goes from an American submarine to the Russian ship that is pinging it on the sonar to a US aircraft carrier and finally to American bombers that are going to assist the submarine, so it is somewhat easy to get lost if you dont pay close attention. The author, being a former Marine Corps pilot, uses vivid imagery and real pilot lingo to make you feel like this is real happening events. The detail and description of the events makes you feel like it's you in the seat of the roaring F-18 or manning the submarine not the author.
Disappointed.......2002-06-28
This was my first and last Joe Weber book. The story was predictable and the characterizations were not compelling. It's not that Weber is a bad writer, it's just there are others who are so much better. I would rather read a bad book by a good writer than a good book by a bad writer. I love Clancy type books but this fell way short. He gets 2 stars for effort.
Very Possible.......2001-10-18
I liked this book very much. I believe it is a real scenario about the world being destroyed by two superpowers
that the world should be worried about, and that makes it all the more interesting. I like the large amount of details that were put into the book, even if some of them were slightly innacurate.
The extra details give the book an air of authority that cannot be given to unknowlegeable books that have simple plots and no twists at the end of the story. This makes the other books very boring. Predictable books do not have this level of information regarding the U.S. and Soviet Unions' weapon capabilities. It also shows their ability to destroy the entire world at the will of one man. This is the only book that is willing to actually show what one man can do in a high seat of power.
There are many other war books like this one, such as "Fortunes of War", but those only show details that are easy to take and are not so likely to happen. Joe Weber rivals Tom Clancy, and I believe that although Clancy has the upper hand, the tables could turn very easily.
In summary, this was an extremely interesting book, augmented by the fine details, but was detracted from by innacuracy.
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DEFCON ONE
Joe Weber
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4 massmarket paperback Titles by Joe Weber Defcon One Honorable Enemies Shadow Flight Targets of Opportunity
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Defcon One
Joe Weber
Manufacturer: CA Presidio 1989.
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More than 120 easy, out-of-this world recipes for any type of grill--all accompanied by beautiful color photos.
Grilled main dishes, simple sides, amazing desserts, and cooling cocktails.
Outdoor grilling instructions and indoor easy oven conversion directions allow sensational and simple grilling year-around.
Sandra's signature BBQ sauce and all-purpose spice rub are also included with a special chapter on pizzas, quesadillas, and flatbreads for the grill.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful series of books.......2007-06-07
I love Sandra Lee's books and recipes. She has great ideas that make you go "Why didn't I think of that?" Great book. Could use as a gift for a beginner cook also.
good one to have in your cooking library.......2007-01-04
If you want to get a basic grilling book, this isn't the one for you.
This book is really creative and requires some higher level cooking experience and knowledge. Its a good book to have just in case you are inspired to make some of the interesting dishes. However, if your looking to grill up some basic steaks, burgers, or such, you'll have to look elsewhere. I love this book for its beautiful pictures and novelty but I don't use it very often.
Summertime and the grilling is easy!.......2006-09-17
Sandra puts a spin on lots of "regular" grilling dishes. Everything I have made from this book has brought nothing but yummms from my dinner guests. A must have book for grillers.
great food.......2006-08-07
Fantastic~~I don't know what the reviews did wrong to say that none of the recipes are good. they must not know how to grill or cook. I bought the book and within the first week, made 6 of the recipes!! They are fantastic, easy to follow and taste great. I keep her rub on hand and the only difference is that I check the food more often so it doesn't burn. If you know how to cook or grill, that's what you need to do. I have several friends and family members that bought it too and love it. Best grill book I ever had. Will try the oven recipes in the winter to see how they turn out.
A collection of awful recipes.......2006-07-26
I'd say that only 1 out of 10 of these recipes are edible. Some actually got throw away before I even contemplated serving them. And the overwhelming majority of them clearly have mistakes (like mixing up teaspoons and tablespoons/omitting directions for called for ingredients/directions that contradict themselves within the recipe) or have difficult or impossible to follow directions. This book seems very, very poorly written and edited.
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Semi-Homemade Grilling 2
Sandra Lee
Manufacturer: Meredith Books
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ASIN: 0696238284
Release Date: 2008-03-04 |
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Sandra is back with more recipes for success. Using the same winning ingredients - food, family and fun - as in her other books, Sandra shares her latest gourmet-tasting, out-of-this-world recipes for any grill in her new must-have cookbook where nothing is made from scratch but everything tastes homemade.
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The Original Baltimore Neighborhood Cookbook
Irina Smith , and
Ann Hazan
Manufacturer: Camino Books
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The Original Baltimore Neighborhood Cookbook presents traditional and unique ethnic neighborhood cooking. What better way to acquaint yourself with Baltimore than through the spirit of treasured family recipes? To collect the recipes for this book, the authors traveled miles by car and by foot to taste and test the favorite recipes of the people who live and work in over 50 Baltimore neighborhoods. The easy-to-follow recipes are complete with serving suggestions and commentary, so you can now enjoy these one-of-a-kind recipes in your own home.
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Bed Hangings: A Treatise on Fabrics and Styles in the Curtaining of Beds, 1650-1850
Jane Nylander , and
Nina Fletcher Little
Manufacturer: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
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A classic work on early American examples of this domestic art is once again available with a new introduction and updated bibliography.
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- The Mecca of Modern Art in France
- Excellent overview of the smaller artistic treasures
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Artists and Their Museums On the Riviera
Barbara F. Freed
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Customer Reviews:
The Mecca of Modern Art in France.......2001-02-11
Barbara Freed takes us on a visit to the places along the Southeastern French coast from St. Tropez to Menton where now-celebrated artists have worked from the time of the pointillist Paul Signac onward. She also takes us to visit the very personal places where the likes of Renoir, Matisse, Chagall, Picasso and Cocteau lived and worked and where their work remains, often in such remarkably personal settings as their home, a museum dedicated to them, a chapel they decorated, and such.
Dr. Freed first came to know this corner of France in 1960, she writes, when her artist father and family spent a year in Vence (across the street from Henri Matisse). This book is a labor of love for her, and it shows.
Having lived in Nice for 3 years in the 1990s, we can attest to the quality of this book. It is a good guide to the artists and it is a good practical guide to visiting their marvelous museums along the Riviera, the Cote d'Azur. The price is modest. We recommend it.
Excellent overview of the smaller artistic treasures.......1998-08-11
I have visited some of the museums and locations mentioned in the book and Dr. Freed has managed to capture the essence and the feeling of the locales while, at the same time, provides an excellent insight into the artist and his time.
I thoroughly enjoyed the information and the descriptions. A larger format would have been a major enhancement but still I found it an excellent reference as well as a moving experience.
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Born and raised in Torino, Italy, Laura Giannatempo spent most summers growing up at her family's seaside house in Liguria, a narrow strip of beautiful coastal land in the northwest of Italy known as the Italian Riviera. Here she developed a passion for the region's vibrant food--refreshing and piquant, best known for its lavish use of fish as well as fresh herbs and produce. A Ligurian Kitchen is a sophisticated love story between the author and the land whose foods and people she vividly describes. It's a lively, pulsating account of the intermingling of life and cuisine in the best tradition of the cookbook memoir.
Quintessential regional specialties such as Trofie con Pesto alla Genovese, (Trofie Pasta with Pesto, Green Beans, and Potatoes) and focaccia fill the book's pages, along with original dishes like Maltagliati con Pesto Piccantino (Fresh Maltagliati with Spicy Purple Pesto) and Ciuppin con Crostoni di Paprika (Ligurian Seafood Bisque with Paprika Crostoni). You'll be tantalized by the delights of seafood lasagna and olive oil gelato--but breezy tales of lovable uncles and a lyrical account of making pasta in the midst of a thundering storm tempt just as much.
With 100 delicious recipes and a beautiful selection of color photographs, Giannatempo takes you on a spirited gastronomic journey through "that extraordinary marriage of land and sea that is Ligurian cuisine." The recipes are peppered by zestful portraits of artisanal bread bakers and wine makers, along with evocative reminiscences that are part memoir, part diary and travelogue with a dash of humor.
Customer Reviews:
A welcomed addition to my kitchen stack..........2007-03-03
really ligurian, really good
The reviewer who claimed this book is "not really Ligurian" seems not to have paid attention. In her introduction, the author is straightforward about the fact that "the recipes in this book don't add up to an encyclopedia of Ligurian cuisine.
"It's not my intention to present you with a comprehensive collection of dishes from the region," she tells us. "Instead, I want to take you on a more intimate, personal journey...."
She does exactly that. It's a book about the spirit of a place. The author captures that spirit well.
That said, it's just plain wrong to say that the recipes here aren't Ligurian in character. I've travelled in Liguria, and while it's true the author offers her own personal interpretation of certain classics (any good cookbook author does that), and in some cases adapts ingredients for what's available in US markets (which I consider a service to readers like me, since the book was published in the US), I've eaten many of these very dishes in restaurants throughout the Ligurian coast and entroterra.
Not only are the recipes here spot-on in their invocation of the region, they're also accessible to a home cook like me. The book is a pleasure to read and a pleasure to cook from.
Touching & tasty too.......2007-03-03
Giannatempo mixes stories from her childhood summers with reflections on the region's food and what it meant to her family. The stories are full of funny characters and a certain nostalgia, all tied to a strong (and inviting) sense of place. The recipes are clear & easy to follow (who knew focaccia could be such a simple thing?) and though some of the favors may be unfamiliar to American readers, that's part of the fun. A great combination.
not really liguraian.......2007-02-16
book is only ok I have thousands of cookbooks and this one is only fair
Enthusiastically recommended.......2007-02-03
Laura Giannatempo's LIGURIAN KITCHEN: RECIPES AND TALES FROM THE ITALIAN RIVIERA is the fifth and newest title in the Hippocrene Books regional Italian cookbook series and narrows the focus to the Ligurian region, blending photos by Michael Piazza with the author's memories of her home. Liguria is a narrow strip of coastal land in northwest Italy: recipes there are filled with dishes you won't find in your usual Italian cookbook - such as Herb Ravioli with Walnut Cream Sauce - and are accompanied by sidebars of information and history. A centerfold of color photos adds inspiration but it's really the unique dishes and stories which stand out in a cookbook that is enthusiastically recommended for any dedicated Italian cuisine collection.
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- Good coffee table book, not enough for professionals
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Riviera Style: From St. Tropez to Capri
Diane Berger
Manufacturer: Scriptum Editions
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In 250 contemporary color photos of architecture and interiors, as well as vintage photos of the rich and famous,
Riviera Style captures the atmosphere, allure, and graceful lifestyle of Europe’s most glamorous coastline.
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Good coffee table book, not enough for professionals.......2004-06-10
As an architect, I look for inspiration and images, this book provides tasteful cultural background but lacks of thorough architecture images and details. Very good coffee table book thought.
Book Description
Foreword by Pari Stave
The French Riviera has been a fabled resort for more than a century. As an enclave for the rich and famous, as well as a scenic tourist spot, it represents all that is beautiful and amusing. But for many of the twentieth century's finest painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects it has been much more: a place of potent myth and extraordinary creativity. Picasso, Matisse, Beckmann, Brancusi, Lartigue, Le Corbusier, and Eileen Gray, among many others, were inspired to create some of their greatest work on the Cote d'Azur.
This study examines the impact of modernity and the artistic imagination on an idyllic landscape. Touching on the issues of pleasure and escape, work and leisure, and desire and ecstasy, Making Paradise offers a fresh look at the Cote d'Azur and its historical significance as a site for modernist innovation from 1890 to the present. Beginning with the neoimpressionists, moving to the Fauves, and ending with such contemporary artists as David Hockney and Faith Ringgold, the book examines the splendid light and terrain of the southeastern coast of France and the region's influence on the artists who worked and played there. Like the book, the exhibition it accompanies features unexpected juxtapostitions: masterworks by Bonnard and Picasso with the photographs of Lartigue and Model; the villas of Le Corbusier, Gray, and Mallet-Stevens with designs for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo; and ceramics of Picasso with the found-object constructions of the Ecole de Nice of the early 1960s.
Copublished with the AXA Gallery, New York.
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AXA Gallery
New York, New York
April 26-July 14, 2001
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Riviera Style
Diane Berger , and
Francesco Venturi
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In nearly 200 color photos of architecture and interiors, as well as vintage photos of the rich and famous, Riviera Style captures the atmosphere, allure, and graceful lifestyle of Europe¹s most glamorous coastline.
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Magazine, published by Downhome Publications, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2032 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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Title: Wish you were here: take home gardening tips from a European-style landscape on Mississippi's Riviera.(GARDENING)
Author: Kelli Bozeman
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Mississippi Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
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Volume: 23
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Best Revenge: How Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since
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A middle-aged playwright—in conflict with his ex-wife, his current girlfriend, and a legion of creditors—journeys from Hollywood to Atlanta to work with his youthful idol, legendary avant-garde director Joseph Chaikin. Thus begins a roller coaster ride of a very unusual sort, combining personal revelations with theatrical obsessions, a step-by-step disclosure of a master director's rehearsal process with a search for spiritual truth (and a decent night's sleep). Just hop aboard and get a backstage pass to the "holding-on-by-your-fingernails" reality of the contemporary American theater.
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Can't Put It Down.......2005-02-07
It may sound weird to compare a book about a Jewish playwright's memoir about his career and working with famous director Joe Chaikin to Erica Jong - however, that's what came to mind. I remember when I first read "Fear of Flying" I was so taken with the character, so intrigued by her life and her adventures, that I took the book everywhere with me. This book has Chinese food all over it because I would cross the street from my home to the local Chinese restaurant, sit at the table each night, and spill food on it while enjoying every single word. It is hysterical, very moving and gives one a great deal of insight into the world of a neurotic playwright who is struggling with personal demons - and having the ride of his life. I'm glad the author took us with him.
Best Revenge: How Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing.......2004-03-02
This is a terrific book. It's a great read, a marvelous look at the struggles of an artist trying to make a living in the theater, and a must buy for anyone who plans to make the theater his or her life.
Fascinating and funny! Personal memoir at its best.......2004-02-01
This book may seem at first glance like something for a "niche" market -- people in the theater or the like -- but it's actually so entertaining, funny, skillfully written, moving and wonderfully offbeat that it speaks to any reader no matter what their interests. Fife has found a way to resonate with the universal experience of success/failure that we all share while still remaining excrutiatingly personal, honest and true to his own real story - and that's what memoir should do! All students of the theater should read this, but so should all students of life. And if you do, I guarentee it won't feel like "studying"...enjoy!
A real page-turner.......2004-01-08
I know that a book is good when I have to put everything else on hold until I finish it. This one grabbed me right from the beginning. On the very first page I felt as though I was the playwright, experiencing the highs and lows of being accepted, rejected and accepted again as an artist. This book was a lot of fun, full of dry wit and good humor. I especially enjoyed getting the inside track into the world of Broadway and film and finding out from a first-hand source what some of those Oscar-winning superstar actors are REALLY like.
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