Author: Judy Roe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Burlesque (Theater) Languages : en Pages : 232
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"Thirty-six hours in the lives of a bunch of unforgettable losers in a sleazy Burlesque House. Anything but what the name implies, the Majestic is a rundown burlesque theater housing some of the most fascinating characters who ever stood in the faded wings or sidled down a runway. They are has-beens and wood-bes, not starry-eyed youngsters, and they include a crippled chorus girl, and escaped lunatic, a sad bull dyke, assorted top and second bananas, a drunken contortionist, and various and tawdry strippers. The world of the Majestic Theater is a world of rigid structure unquestioned by most; its troupes are like peasants of the Middle Ages, accustomed to tedium, hardship and calamity. Living is hard -- they know that -- but life is sweet! Living through these hours with this wildly diverse cast of characters, sharing tragedy, pathos, comedy and drama with them, the reader will be educated, entertained, and almost hopfeul at the book's end."--Rear cover.
Author: Richard Halpern Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022643365X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
"Thy bloody and invisible hand": tragedy and political economy -- Greek tragedy and the raptor economy: the Oresteia -- Marlowe's theater of night: Doctor Faustus and capital -- Hamlet and the work of death -- The same old grind: Milton's Samson as subtragic hero -- Hegel, Marx, and the novelization of tragedy -- Beckett's tragic pantry -- Postscript: after Beckett
Author: Richard Aquila Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791495191 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title While other collections of letters and memoirs from World War II have dealt with upper-class individuals, officers, or college-educated people, Home Front Soldier is the first to explore the life of an ordinary, working-class, first-generation American. This gripping story of a young soldier, Philip L. Aquila, and his Italian American family during the Second World War includes a detailed introduction, providing historical context to the more than 500 letters that this sergeant wrote to his family back home in Buffalo, New York. Like an epistolary novel, the letters offer an intimate personal history of how a large immigrant family with four sons in the military coped with the daily traumas of World War II. Each of the major and minor plots relates to larger questions in American social history of the 1930s and 1940s, offering fresh insights about family history, gender relations, ethnic and immigration history, and everyday life on the home front. The book also fills a gap in military history by providing detailed information about soldiers stationed in the United States during the war.
Author: John Zakour Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101498242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
The hilarious sequel to The plutonium Blonde. In the year 2057, the last freelance private investigator, partnered with an experimental A.I. named Harv, solves cases involving androids, future tech wizards, and all sorts of mayhem...
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