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But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!
Provides a close-up look at the many stage productions of the musical and its film adaptation of Patrick Dennis's best-selling novel Auntie Mame, looking at the creation of this legendary fictional character and the impact it had on the lives and careers of such celebrities as Rosalind Russell, Angela Lansbury, and Lucille Ball who took on the role of Mame. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Auntie Mame
When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy and eccentric aunt, a New York socialite named Mame. Prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy and expensive whims, Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how - with humour, mishaps, unforgettable friends and lots of love. From progressive schooling and Mame's search for a husband to her short-lived literary career and the puncturing of some of Patrick's romances, Auntie Mame is the most magnificent and hilarious work of love, style, wit and the life of a modern American.
When Novels Were Books
A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call “literature.” Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers...
Strangers in the Night
Dulcit City, Iowa, is about to ignite with the sizzling debut of a new reality TV show that’s as daring as it is tantalizingly sexy. Meet Hamilton Peabody III, the visionary senior programming director whose scandalous past in Hollywood got him booted out of town to the heart of the heartland—and the drama is just beginning. Enter Hunk House, Hamilton’s audacious brainchild set to increase the ratings for local cable channel KRUQ—and set pulses racing. Picture six of the hottest gay men thrust together under one roof, their every move captured on camera. With each passing week, the tension mounts as one contestant faces elimination. And when desires spark and passions flare, rules ar...
Overnight Sensation
“Tyler stirs up an intoxicating cocktail composed of equal parts delicious name-dropping gossip, venomous Hollywood satire and steamy boy-meets-boy action." — Publishers Weekly Prepare to plunge headfirst into the tumultuous, high-stakes world of Bart Caine, a battle-scarred publicist at Sterling Studios, the glittering epicenter of Hollywood’s family entertainment empire. Bart’s workplace is a breeding ground for arrogance and ego, where insufferable celebrities clash with monstrous movie studio executives. At the center of this maelstrom of power and ambition is his vicious boss, Stephanie Hough—a woman hell-bent on power and destroying Bart’s career. But in Sin City, the spotl...
One Night Stand
You’re invited to an exclusive den of iniquity… where Hollywood’s gay stars and power brokers can speed-dial the sex fantasies of their dreams… if they can pay the price. It’s a private connection, so guarded, people would do anything to protect its secret… anything! Like millions of other gorgeous, iron-pumped young guys, Derek Bracken came to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and maybe a chance at Mr. Right. But after a few years of waiting tables, juggling acting classes and auditions, and working the casting couch on his back, Derek’s still a sexy unknown… until a sheet-soaking session with a Hollywood hotshot takes his life and career in a very new and profitable directio...
The Pagemaster
Dashing into the local library to escape a storm, Richard is suddenly hurled into another dimension, where books come to life and Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror are in control.
Clock Dance
A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of French Braid Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother's disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it's never too late to choose your own path. **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce 'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
Gay Blades
When their "Gold on Ice" show arrives in Clarksville, Missouri, competitive figure skaters Garry Windsor and Jay Logan meet an eighteen-year-old Adonis in spandex whose innocent facade hides a scheming, backstabbing nature that prompts Gary and Jay to teach him a lesson he will not soon forget. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Queering the South on Screen
"Within the realm of U.S. culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are Southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining "the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity" depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth century. From portrayals of slavery to gothic horror films, the contributors show that queer southerners have always expressed desires for distinctiveness in the making and consumption of visual media. Read together, the introduction and twelve chapters deconstruct premeditated labels of identity such as queer and southern. In doing so, they expose the reflexive nature of these labels to construct fantasies based on southerner's self-identification based on what they were not"--
