ISBN: 9781597144896
Editorial: Heyday
Autor: Twain, Mark
Año de edición: 2019
N° Paginas: 296
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the AuthorBernard Taper (1918-2016) was the author of several books, including the acclaimed Balanchine: A Biography and Cellist in Exile: A Portrait of Pablo Casals. Following a stint as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, he worked for many years as a staff writer for the New Yorker. He was also a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco’s Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels―nothing escaped Mark Twain’s scrutiny or his acerbic wit. Bernard Taper has gathered together a heady selection of newspaper articles, correspondence, poetry, and short stories that are humorous―sometimes exasperating and controversial―but always engaging. Edward Jump, a contemporary of Twain’s, offers through his lively illustrations a visual drum roll to Twain’s cantankerous prose. From earthquakes, scandals, and tantalizing bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in “exquisitely modulated tones,” Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Envío: Desde EE. UU.
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