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Out with the Stars.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, James.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane’s dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous and vengeful widow and her faded cronies employ all the means at their disposal to prevent the opening of Blossom’s opera. Out with the Stars is peopled by the Gothic characters readers of James Purdy have come to anticipate and relish, from Val Sturgis, Kentucky boy made good and now Blossom’s protégé to Francis X. Beauregard, aging star of the silver screen now living surrounded by streetwise hustlers in his Brooklyn mansion.Back in print for the first time since 1993, Purdy’s flamboyant tale of New York City’s pre-Stonewall bohemia includes an incisive Foreword by Robert J. Corber, placing the work within its rich social and cultural context.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Praise for James Purdy
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Out with the Stars
- To be Delivered by Messenger
- Returning this Evening. Devotedly, Olga
- Black Opera to Stun White World
- The Final Apotheosis of Opera Cockcrow the World will Never be the Same, Nor will you: World Premiere Tonite
- About Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Purdy, James Out with the Stars
- ISBN:
- 9781531501273
- OCLC:
- 1340717661
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