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Groucho Marx : the comedy of existence / Lee Siegel.
LIBRA PN2287.M53 S54 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Lee, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Jewish lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977.
- Marx, Groucho.
- Comedians--United States--Biography.
- Comedians.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 162 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a fateful condition
- Nothing will come of nothing
- Human, all too human
- Fathers and sons
- Groucho and me: a match made in heaven
- Interlude: words
- Beyond the pleasure principle
- Groucho the Jewish aristocrat
- Groucho the Jewish outsider-philosopher
- Epilogue: gone today, here tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2014 (for Jewish Lives series)
- ISBN:
- 0300174454
- 9780300174458
- OCLC:
- 906878013
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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