Frank Conroy
1) Body & soul
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This saga of a son of the working class who grows into a piano prodigy is "hypnotically readable . . . the best story I know of in a long, long time" (Vanity Fair). As a boy, Claude Rawlings looks up through the grated window of his basement apartment to watch the world go by. Poor, lonely, supported by a taxi-driver mother whose eccentricities spin more and more out of control, he faces the terrible task of growing up on the margins of life, destined...
Author
Description
For thirty years, Frank Conroy's commentaries on life, music, and writing have appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and GQ. DOGS BARK, BUT THE CARAVAN ROLLS ON collects these pieces into an autobiography in journalistic snapshots. They evoke Conroy's southern childhood, his teen years in New York as a truant hanging out at pool halls and Harlem jazz clubs, his first glimmers of the power of language and the...
3) Stop-time
Author
Pub. Date
1977
Description
Savages. -- Space and a dead mule. -- Going North. -- White days and red knights. -- Hate, and a kind of music. -- Please don't take my sunshine away. -- Shit. -- A yo-yo going down, a mad squirrel coming up. -- Falling. -- The coldness of public places. -- Blindman's bluff. -- Nights away from home. -- Death by itself. -- License to drive. -- Hanging on. -- Losing my cherry. -- Going to sea. -- Elsinore, 1933. -- The lock on the Metro door. -- Unambiguous...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Hollywood legend Clark Gable stars in this soaring adaptation of the celebrated Jack London novel. Jack Thornton is a prospector who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When Jack buys Buck, a strong and loyal sled dog with part-wolf ancestry, their thrilling adventure through the Alaskan wilderness begins.
5) Grand Hotel
Pub. Date
©2005, ©1932.
Description
The glitz and glitter of Berlin's Grand Hotel comes alive with this story of love and betrayal.
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