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Jerome Robbins, by Himself
- Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir
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The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor, and director, now revealed in his own words - the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography - from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, and diaries, never before published. Edited, and with commentary by Amanda Vaill, author of Robbins' biography, Somewhere, 2006.
He was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical, creating a vernacular American ballet, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before, integrating dance seamlessly with character, story and music, and as associate artistic director, ballet master, and co-artistic director, with George Balanchine, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet's classical idiom. He was known as the king of Broadway, the most sought-after director-choreographer and show doctor who gave shape to On the Town (1944), Call Me Madam (1950), The King and I (1951), Wonderful Town (1953), Peter Pan (1954), The Pajama Game (1954), Silk Stockings (1955), West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Funny Girl (1964), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and many other classic musicals, winning four Tony Awards, two Oscars, and an Emmy. He shocked and betrayed those he loved and worked with by naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. ("I betrayed my manhood, my Jewishness, my parents, my sister," he wrote in a diary. "I can't undo it.")
Now, Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his extraordinary range as a thinker and artist, as well as a surprising and revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant.
Interspersed throughout, his correspondence with George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Robert Graves, Lincoln Kirstein, Arthur Laurents, Tanaquil Le Clercq (the fourth of Balanchine's four wives, with whom Robbins was also in love), Laurence Olivier, Stephen Sondheim, et al.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"These diaries and letters by a choreographer who wasn't thought to be a writer, are as thrilling as they are revelatory, and Vaill has done a magnificent job of assembling and giving order to this treasure trove. Through the eyes of the man who was instrumental in its evolution, we get a close-up of the great postwar changes in dance - the Americanization of ballet, the golden era of the musical comedy. Along with candid notes to and about lovers both male and female, there are work-related letters to his colleagues and heartrending ones to his muse Tanaquil Le Clercq. Most entrancing of all are Robbins's descriptions of specific dances (like Fancy Free and Anna and the King) as they take shape in his imagination, step by step, gesture by gesture." (Molly Haskell)
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With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we’ve invented to describe it.
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Single reader would have been better.
- De D. Steele en 03-20-23
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- De: Vikram Sampath
- Narrado por: Pratik Sharma
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of "Hindutva"? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics.
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Very good book - Must read
- De Anirudha Kulkarni en 04-03-23
De: Vikram Sampath
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Life Among the Savages
- De: Shirley Jackson
- Narrado por: Lesa Lockford
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.
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Stories From A Quirky Family
- De Sara en 01-23-16
De: Shirley Jackson
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His Masterly Pen
- A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 24 h y 4 m
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
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Jefferson Condemned by his own Masterly Pen
- De SVAtlanta en 02-15-23
De: Fred Kaplan
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Magritte
- A Life
- De: Alex Danchev
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
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In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat.
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Outstanding Presentation of the Artist & His Art.
- De Regina en 01-06-24
De: Alex Danchev
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The Wreck
- A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
- De: Cassandra Jackson
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father's niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma.
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Compelling and thought provoking
- De EBH3 en 07-02-23
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Nothing Stays Put
- The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
- De: Willard Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we’ve invented to describe it.
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Single reader would have been better.
- De D. Steele en 03-20-23
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- De: Vikram Sampath
- Narrado por: Pratik Sharma
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of "Hindutva"? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics.
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Very good book - Must read
- De Anirudha Kulkarni en 04-03-23
De: Vikram Sampath
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Dorothy Dandridge
- A Biography
- De: Donald Bogle
- Narrado por: Donald Bogle, Matthew J. Turner
- Duración: 26 h y 44 m
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Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer - the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award - who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement - a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it.
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Serious editing needed
- De Bab's Prince en 02-14-23
De: Donald Bogle
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Every Night Is Saturday Night
- A Country Girl's Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- De: Wanda Jackson, Scott B. Bomar, Elvis Costello - foreword
- Narrado por: Grey Delisle, Elvis Costello
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a 16-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and asked her to be "his girl."
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Grey DeLisle was the perfect choice to Narrate Wanda Jackson’s Book.
- De Loyana M. Vodicka en 01-23-24
De: Wanda Jackson, y otros
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On Argentina
- De: Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine - editor, Alfred Mac Adam - editor introduction
- Narrado por: Diego Diment
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin.
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On Argentina
- De Fred Kiesche en 07-22-23
De: Jorge Luis Borges, y otros
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Sentence
- Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
- De: Daniel Genis
- Narrado por: Daniel Genis
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to 12 years (10 with good behavior).
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Needs a better reader
- De Thomas M. Elder en 03-15-22
De: Daniel Genis
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This Wheel of Rocks
- An Unexpected Spiritual Journey
- De: Sister Marya Grathwohl
- Narrado por: Sister Marya Grathwohl
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Growing up in the Midwest, Judy Grathwohl never felt she belonged. “I belong out west,” she remembers telling her father. After joining the Sisters of St. Francis in the early 1960s and becoming Sister Marya, she came to realize that she craved a life beyond the traditional path of a Catholic nun. “Something other than dedicating my life to God was summoning me, some other life purpose,” she writes.
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Connection between humans and earth.
- De Margaret en 12-18-23
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Films of Endearment
- A Mother, a Son and the '80s Films That Defined Us
- De: Michael Koresky
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Michael Koresky's most formative memories were simple ones. A movie rental. A mug of tea. And a few shared hours with his mother. Years later and now a successful film critic, Koresky set out on a journey with his mother to discover more about their shared cinematic past. They rewatched ten films that she first introduced to him as a child, one from every year of the '80s, each featuring women leads.
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Victoria
- De: Stanley Weintraub
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 29 h y 9 m
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This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of her life. For example, she was fatherless at eight months and treated poorly by her family, but survived to become the only English queen comparable to Elizabeth I. The character of Victoria herself, stubborn and vital, is also drawn out.
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not the best victoria
- De Dr. A. en 09-06-20
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Crescendo
- The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town
- De: Allen Cheney, Julie Cantrell - contributor
- Narrado por: Allen Cheney
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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During the Great Depression, Fred Allen is born poor and hungry in the shadow of rural Georgia’s infamous cotton mills. By the time Fred is three years old, he can play hymns on the piano without missing a note. In kindergarten, he amazes adults with Chopin. Terrified that Fred’s genius is proof of a curse, his parents lock away the piano.
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I'm glad I listened to this Book
- De RENDENA en 08-29-22
De: Allen Cheney, y otros
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Hard Landings
- Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism
- De: Cammie McGovern
- Narrado por: Cammie McGovern
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Cammie McGovern expands on her number one New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism", in this game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.
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Educational and Informative
- De Susan Riggle Waterson en 01-05-23
De: Cammie McGovern
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Paradise Now
- The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld
- De: William Middleton
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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In February 2019, the world lost one of its most enduring cultural icons, Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director for the storied House of Chanel for thirty-five years. Larger than life, Lagerfeld was legendary not only for reinventing Chanel; and creating constant fashion excitement at Chloé, Fendi, and his eponymous brand; but also for his vivid personal style, including his signature uniform of dark sunglasses and a powdered white ponytail. And then there was his utter devotion to his cat, Choupette.
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Mon dieu! The narration
- De alex en 05-16-23
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A Death in Malta
- An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
- De: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Narrado por: Paul Caruana Galizia
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country’s lonely voice of conscience, her muckraking and editorializing sending shock waves that threatened to topple those in power and made her at once the island’s best-known figure and its most reviled. In 2017, a campaign of intimidation against her culminated in a car bombing that took her life.
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Wow…just shocking
- De Kathy Roy en 06-19-24
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Ice Candy Man
- De: Bapsi Sidhwa
- Narrado por: Mala Mangla
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit, and such tragic power.
De: Bapsi Sidhwa
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Jerome Robbins, by Himself
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- 12-14-19
Authoritative Text on Robbins' Legacy
Jerome Robbins, by Himself pulls back the curtain on this creative genius’ life. Unique is the deep dance into his highly complex head and heart. The many revelations about the contradictions and conflicts in his psyche are one’s readers can trust, because they are documented in his own voice through journals, letters, and excerpts from an unfinished memoir. Of huge interest and intrigue is the inclusion of Robbins’ literal notes, and sometimes torturous ruminations on his creative process. Expertly edited by Amanda Vaill, along with her definitive commentary, this book should serve as the authoritative text on Robbins’ legacy.
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