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New York U. S. A.: Harper Perennial. As New 1996. Softcover. Marfree, early prtg, typical aging not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. … Mehr…
New York U. S. A.: Harper Perennial. As New 1996. Softcover. Marfree, early prtg, typical aging not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 7.9 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches; 248 pages; \nFrom Publishers Weekly The signal event of this novel? The shooting of the protagonist's son? Is announced early, and the rest of the book is imbued with a melancholy only occasionally illuminated by spiritual revelation or insight. Edward Ives is a foundling, adopted by a widowed print shop manager and raised uneventfully in an idyllic? Though Depression-era? New York City of egg creams, stickball and melting-pot color. Ives's dark looks and his father's long history of working amiably with Cuban pressmen incline him toward a sympathy with Hispanics and their culture, which conveniently anchors Hijuelos in a world he knows well. As a child, Ives shows a penchant for drawing, and he meets his future wife, Annie MacGuire, in a class at the Art Students League. Their first child, Robert (or Roberto) , born in 1950, is murdered at age 17 on the streets of New York by a Puerto Rican teenager. The case is celebrated --Robert had just decided to enter the priesthood and was killed for a measly $10; by his side was found a shopping bag full of record albums-- Christmas presents carefully chosen for each member of his family. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Hijuelos showed he can sharply evoke a vibrant, multicultural New York, capturing its music, its menace and its smell. Here, however, every storefront is darkened by the grief of Edward Ives, and every note is tamped. It is as if the lovelorn Nestor of Mambo Kings has returned from the dead to play his sad arias in a world? And a book? Absent his lively, spirited brother, Cesar. The author's attempts to render all this as a Dickensian tale of redemption through dignified suffering? Dickens is invoked more than a dozen times? Are crude and work no wonders. Not even a long-foreshadowed and deferred meeting at the end of the book between Ives and his son's murderer helps: "Nothing monumental transpired. Niceties were exchanged. " Same for the book. BOMC selection; author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed. From Library Journal For Edward Ives, a graphic artist employed by a Madison Avenue advertising firm, Christmas has always been an emotionally charged holiday. It was during the Christmas season that Edward's foster father first visited him at the foundling home, and at Christmas a few years later Edward was finally adopted. Ives met his wife at an art students' Christmas party, and-most importantly-it was during the 1967 Christmas season that Ives's 17-year-old son was senselessly gunned down as he left choir practice. Ives has never fully recovered from the killing, and his unshakable depression threatens to destroy his marriage, as does his strange obsession with rehabilitating the murderer. It is significant that Mr. Ives's most prized possession is a signed edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Hijuelos, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Cuban exile, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, breathes new life into the Victorian Christmas genre. Highly recommended. --Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib. , Los Angeles Copyright 1995 Reed. ., Harper Perennial, 1996, music by Peter De RoseLyric by Mitchell Parishpublished by Robbins Music Corporation - copyright 1934,1939featured by Norman Cloutier & his orchestraby the writers of "Deep Purple"Code: Lilacs#: SH 1873-3contains lyrics9 1/8 x 12 inches, 5 pagesPeter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10, 1900 April 23, 1953) was a US Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era.DeRose was born in New York City and as a boy exhibited a gift for things musical. He learned to play the piano from an older sister but composing music was a gift that saw him have his first song published at the age of eighteen. After finishing high school (DeWitt Clinton High School), class of 1917, he found a job at a music store as a stock room clerk but a highly successful 1920 composition called "When You're Gone, I Won't Forget" led to his being hired by the New York office of the Italian music publisher G. Ricordi & Co.In 1923 he met ukulele musician May Singhi Breen (18951970) performing on radio with a female ukulele group known as the "Syncopators." A personal relationship developed and she left the group to join DeRose in a musical radio show on NBC called the "Sweethearts of the Air" in which he played piano and she performed on the ukulele. The popular show ran for sixteen years during which time the two entertainers were married. The show not only provided them with a good living, but was also a vehicle for the introduction of a number of his compositions.DeRose collaborated with a number of prominent lyricists such as Charles Tobias, Al Stillman, Carl Sigman, Billy Hill. Some of DeRose's best known works are:"Somebody Loves You" (1932) piano composition and with lyrics recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1966;"Wagon Wheels" (1934) used in the Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies in 1934, and performed by singers such as Bing Crosby and Paul Robeson;"Deep Purple" (1934) popularized by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra featuring Bea Wain and later by Nino Tempo and April Stevens as a duet;"Rain" (1934) performed by Ella Fitzgerald;"Have You Ever Been Lonely?" (1934) originally a hit for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, it was recorded by Teresa Brewer in 1960, Patsy Cline in 1961, and Jim Reeves in 1962;"On a Little Street In Singapore" (1938) performed by Harry James and Frank Sinatra;"A Marshmallow World" (1949) Christmas song recorded by numerous artists including in 1963 by Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin Christmas 1966 album, Kim Stockwood (1999);"Buona Sera", an international hit record for Louis Prima in 1956.The music of Peter DeRose has been recorded by many other artists including John Coltrane, Spike Jones, Art Tatum, Les McCann, and Peggy Lee. In addition to Wagon Wheels, Peter DeRose wrote songs for the Broadway musicals Yes Yes Yvette and Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1928. The most famous of his songs, "Deep Purple", was written in 1934 as a piano composition with lyrics added a few years later by Mitchell Parish. It was a top hit for Larry Clinton & His Orchestra in 1939 and recorded by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Sarah Vaughan. In 1957, it was a No. 20 hit record for Billy Ward & the Dominoes then a No. 1 hit on the 1963 Billboard charts for Nino Tempo & April Stevens. It would become popular again in 1976 with another duet by Donny and Marie Osmond.In 1932 Peter DeRose wrote religious sheet music with radio star Phillips H. Lord for one of Lord's "Seth Parker" religious music books. DeRose also composed music for the 1941 Ice Capades show and in the late 1940s and early 1950s wrote songs for several Hollywood motion pictures.Peter DeRose's final hit was "You Can Do It", written just before his death in New York City in 1953. Interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, his tombstone is etched with the words "Every friend he ever made, he kept".In 1970, Peter DeRose was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.------------------------------------Mitchell Parish (July 10, 1900 March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist.Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old. They settled first in Louisiana where his paternal grandmother had relatives, but later moved to New York City.By the late 1920s Parish was a well-regarded Tin Pan Alley lyricist in New York City.His best-known works include the lyrics to songs such as "Star Dust," "Sweet Lorraine," "Deep Purple," "Stars Fell on Alabama," "Sophisticated Lady," the translation to English lyrics of "Volare," "Moonlight Serenade," "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town," "Sleigh Ride," "One Morning in May," and "Louisiana Fairy Tale," which was the first theme song used in the PBS Production of This Old House.Besides providing the lyrics to Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust," the two collaborated on standards such as "Riverboat Shuffle" and "One Morning in May."In 1949, Parish added lyrics to bandleader Al Goodman's tune, "The Allen Stroll," which was played as radio comedian Fred Allen took a stroll down "Allen's Alley", a featured segment of Allen's weekly show. The new song, "Carousel of Love," premiered on The Fred Allen Show on April 4, 1949. It was sung by the DeMarco Sisters and played by Al Goodman and his Orchestra.In 1951, he wrote the English lyrics of the French song Maître Pierre which was written in 1949 by Henri Betti (music) and Jacques Plante (lyrics). The title song became The Windmill Song and the song was recorded by The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra.In 1987, a revue titled Stardust was staged on Broadway featuring Parish's lyrics. It ran for 101 performances and was revived in 1999. In an interview at the time Parish claimed to have also written the lyrics to the Duke Ellington standard "Mood Indigo" though they were credited to Irving Mills. He remained "somewhat rueful, though no longer bitter" about it.Parish's grandnephew was the Grateful Dead roadie Steve Parish, who described Parish's meeting with Jerry Garcia in his autobiography, Home Before Day Light.In 1972, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame., Robbins Music Corporation, 1939, New York: Bantam, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want, don't need, and don't dare turn their backs on—especially when one of the perpetrators might be one of Pike's old friends. Hunted like animals across the frozen countryside, Pike and Holt will risk everything—including their reputations, their dreams—and their lives Book is near fine with minimal edge wear., Bantam, 1994, New York: Bantam, 2002. Pocket, 17,5 x 11 cm, 1009 pp. Thomas Lynley investigates the case of an old lady purposely run down and killed on a quiet street in London. Cond.: goed / good. ., Bantam, 2002, Ace, 2011-10-04 Cover Chipped. See our Terms of Sale for a detailed description of condition notes.. Hardcover. Used - Very Good., Ace, 2011-10-04 Cover Chipped. See ou, Paperback. Very Good., Paperback. Good., Jean Gumbrell, Saffron Waldon, 1989. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:095145420X, Jean Gumbrell, Saffron Waldon, 1989, Stationery Office Books, 1977. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This is a pamphlet. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,100grams, ISBN:0116707933, Stationery Office Books, 1977<
