Arvin Garfin, Publisher -
printed and boubd in the United States of America
- Année: 1978
Cartonné / jaquette
570 pages
932 grammes hors emballage
Epaisseur 4, 5 ccm
Etat : Bon - jaquette un peu fatiguée sur les bords
CONTENTS :
Joanna Richandson " Sarah Bernhardt and her World " 60 pages
with seven photos
" Sarah Bernhard lived nearly 80 years and have a theater carrer
spanning more than sixty. There was ample room for legend and, like
Isadora, she had numerous legends grow up about her. Joanna
Richardson' s biography ( Sarah Bernhard and her World
)... gives a good...overview of her life in all its triumps,
tragedies and flamboyance " ( Publishers Weekly )
Nancy Friday " My Mother/My Self " The
Daugther's search for identity - 131 pages with one photo of Nancy
Frifay
" ( My Mother/My Self ) is a landmark study. Most valuable and
moving is Nancy Friday's painful honesty about her own personal
search for identity sparked by her research and the way in which
she was forced to face herself and her long-hidden angers and
confusions. She is thorough, sensible, seemingly fearless as the
probes and analyzes aspects of this must delicate subject
symbionis, separation, body image, competition, role models, men,
virginity, marriage and the ultimate deathe of the mother. " (
Publishers Weekly )
Ruth Kirk " Snow " 214 pages with
eleven photos
" To those for whom snow is only what one shovels, skis on, or
sings about at Christmas, Ruth Kirk ( author of Snow ) has a wealth
of information animal, vegetable and minéral. This illustrated
study of a natural phenomenon moves us gracefully through a
blizzard of facts, myths, history, personnal observation, and
meteorological data that is knowledgeably gathered and pleasantly
presented " ( Saturday Review )
Jay Anson " The Amityville Horror " -104 pages with two photos
" Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror is quite simply the scariest
true story I have read in years. I won't ask Pilate' s question
about it, but at least most of it is verified and witnessed by
reliable people, and it is written in a factual and convincing
style "
( Tle Los Angeles Times )
John H. Davis " The Guggenheims - An American Epic " 166 pages with
nine photos
" John H. Davis , a cousin of Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, devoted his
first family history to his own clan, the Bouviers, who were small
potatoes compared to the current subject, The Guggenheims. The
course of American history and culture was influenced by Swiss
emigré Meyer Guggenheim ( 1828-1905 ) and his is American-born
sons. They were the Lords of the Earth from 1905 until a business
decline in 1923, the richest Jewish family in the world next to the
Rothschilds, owners of mountains of silver, copper and gold
throughout the world, war profiteers nonpareil, advisers to
presidents. ( Frederick M. Winship UPI )
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