Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman - Rilegato

Zehme, Bill

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0385333714 ISBN 13: 9780385333719

Casa editrice: Delacorte Pubns Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Draws on interviews with Kaufman's family and friends, as well as unpublished letters and manuscripts, to provide a portrait of the comedian's complex personality

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Recensione:

"Fascinating ... Engrossing ... The closest thing we are ever likely to get to a definitive account of his life."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"In daring to crawl beneath Kaufman's psychic skin, armed with eyewitness accounts of his exploits, the book gets closer to the truth than we are otherwise likely to get."
-- Chicago Sun-Times

"Incisive, tellingly detailed."
-- Rolling Stone
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'. Recognized among the nation's more unique interpreters of popular culture, he is a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and his impressionistic profiles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. During the six years of research for Lost in the Funhouse, he served as supervising producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: A Celebration and consulting producer of the NBC-TV special A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman. He lives in Chicago.

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• Editore: Delacorte Pubns Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385333714
• ISBN 13: 9780385333719
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368