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529pages. 24x15x4cm. Broché.
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American Rhapsody is a gleeful act of outrage, simultaneously an assault on the Clintons and a bridge-burning, tell-all Hollywood memoir in the wicked spirit of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. Joe Eszterhas's narrative is a torrent of consciousness with no consistent sense of direction, but it all erupts from a plausible organising principle best articulated in the chapter "Bubba in Pig Heaven": Hollywood is where Clinton really belongs. The author claims Bill watches Blazing Saddles six times a year, and says that Gennifer Flowers got him blazing by enacting a Sharon-Stone-like crotch-shot scene years before Basic Instinct.
The Lewinsky saga really should be ho-hum by now, but American Rhapsody's Evel-Knievel-like leaps of free association and mad brio breathe life into it. You've never been properly introduced to Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg until you've read "The Ratwoman and the Bag Lady of Sleaze", its uproarious take on the pair. American Rhapsody gives dozens of stars time in the sweaty spotlight: Matt "the Scavenger" Drudge, heroic Larry Flynt (whose threat to report Republican scandals Eszterhas credits with quashing impeachment)--almost every big political scandal victim in memory. And there are lots of Hollywood types behaving badly: Bob Dylan, Warren Beatty, Ronald Reagan, Farrah Fawcett, Sharon Stone, Robert Evans, Sly Stallone (who wanted to portray Jesus onscreen), and even Joe Eszterhas. The fantasy chapters, printed in boldface, are sometimes funny (e.g., "Kenneth W. Starr Confesses"), but mostly they're both over the top and below the belt (e.g., "Willard Comes Clean", the confessions of the president's penis). What holds your interest is the main narrative, a heady mix of showbiz gossip, personal essay, and Lester-Bangs-style prose mania. --Tim Appelo
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"Part tell-all, part fiction, part rant, part history. It's all wicked and witty and hard to ignore". -- The Denver Post
"This is a truly naughty book, but it is also a strangely moral one." -Talk
"Part tell-all, part fiction, part rant, part history. It's all wicked and witty and hard to ignore." - The Denver Post
"A fact-based, ranting, rocking -and-rolling screed with none of the full-frontal scissored out... a long yell of protest... extremely funny." - Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review"
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- PublisherAlbin Michel
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 2226121269
- ISBN 13 9782226121264
- BindingPaperback
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 529 pages. Couverture Broché Grand Format avec jaquette en excellente condition, texte francais, Âmes délicates s'abstenir. Joe Eszterhas, ex-journaliste de Rolling Stone, scénariste ultramédiatique de Basic Instinct et autres bluettes, ne fait pas dans la dentelle. Dès les premières pages de ce brûlot en forme de pavé, une certaine Amérique vous saute au visage : celle de Hollywood et de la Maison blanche, version Sharon Stone et Bill Clinton. Ou la décadence de l'Empire romain, version fin de millénaire. Vulgaire ? À souhait. Indigeste ? Tout dépend des goûts. Eszterhas navigue au ras des pâquerettes, et sous la ceinture de préférence. Mais il frappe fort, avec les mots justes. Cette étourdissante galerie de portraits, cette fresque vertigineuse à la Michel-Ange, revisitée par Larry Flint, le sulfureux patron de Hustler Magazine, cette "rhapsodie" en forme de croisade s'attaque au vrai démon de l'Amérique : le puritanisme. Et ne manque finalement ni d'intelligence, ni de sincérité. Servie par une plume virtuose, ravageuse, toute l'énergie d'une culture férocement démocratique explose ici avec une violence incendiaire - et n'a au fond de leçon à recevoir de personne Size: 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 118950
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