About this title: In this collection of New Yorker magazine profiles, author John Lahr draws on countless interviews to characterize several people in the arts, including Woody Allen, Bob Hope, and David Mamet.
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Description: Very Good. 1585670626 Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. HAS REMAINDER MARK. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2000-09-01
ISBN-13:9781585670628ISBN:1585670626
Description: Very Good. This is a very nice 1st printing hardcover copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. DJ is VG. FFEP Removed. "Withdrawn" stamped on title page. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: First Edition First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Pr, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781585670628ISBN:1585670626
Description: Fine/Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 1-58567-062-6 335 pages. read more
Description: Very good. Published in 2000 by Overlook, a fine 335-page hardcover book in nice dust jacket, apparently unread & unmarked, this is a very good copy. (964) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press, The, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781585670628ISBN:1585670626
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1st printing. Remainder mark. read more
What if you were a biographer and had four months to exhaustively research your subject, and you took over a thousand pages of transcribed interviews, and then tried to distill what you've discovered down to 10 pages or less? That's what the profiles in The New Yorker do, and Lahr manages to do this in a consistently readable way. If you know a lot about the subject in question anyway (for me it was Woody Allen, Frank Sinatra, Arthur Miller and Eddie Izzard) then you don't get many new insights from these profiles, but if you are less familiar with some of the subjects (I know David Mamet's work very well but not his life, for example) then the profiles are especially good. Also, the author is the son of Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz) and he does a profile on his famous father, which was interesting."
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