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Lädt ... New York Life: Of Friends and Othersvon Brendan Gill
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Drawing upon recollections of more than half a century of work and play in New York City, veteran New Yorker writer Brendan Gill brings to vivid life 40 years of the most interesting people he has met during life lifetime, Eleanor Roosevelt, Buster Keaton and Dorothy Parker. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Brendan Gill wrote the first words of the book when he came home from the celebration held in lieu of a funeral for Charles Addams (cartoonist for The New Yorker -- the TV show inspired by his cartoons isn't mentioned). In many of the pieces there's a feeling that he wants to set the record straight -- mostly to give credit where people have been underestimated or misrepresented, but occasionally (as for Joseph Campbell and perhaps Brendan Behan) to suggest that their reputations weren't entirely deserved. The tone is generally elegiac: in his seventies at the time of writing, he sets out to capture the feel of a generation that has passed or is passing, of people who have created fine things (any number of artists, writers and architects), lived admirable lives (Eleanor Roosevelt), or just been interesting (like Nigel Nicholson, son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson), made their marks as film stars (Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton). Some of the stories, especially to my mind the one on Dorothy Parker, are heartbreaking. Among the portraits one finds mini-essays, on the institution of gentleman's clubs in New York, for example; and there are plenty of glimpses of famous people not the subject of portraits: among them foul-mouthed Tallulah Bankhead, genial Charles Addams and egotistical Frank Lloyd Wright. The whole is a diverting read, an elegant, often very funny, personal glimpse of a world that's generally hidden behind a wall of dignity or journalese. ( )