Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune

Stephen Citron

ISBN 10: 0300100825 / ISBN 13: 9780300100822

Published by Yale University Press, 2004

About this Item

The book is spotless and just-like-new except for a few tiny marks on the bottom (outer page edges). Its dust jacket is not price-clipped and is completely clean. It has no holes, chips or tears but does show light wear to the top edge of the spine, some rubbing and light scratches to the glossy surfaces of the front and back panels. Book and dust jacket will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.

Seller Inventory # 091225-02

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300100825
• ISBN 13: 9780300100822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Musicals
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been published only in excerpts, in French, with serious omissions and alterations.
This book presents the complete text of the memoir, with an introduction and helpful annotations by the distinguished Proust scholar William C. Carter. Also included here is other new material: the inscriptions that Proust wrote for Forssgren's copy of "Swann's Way;" an important telegram that Proust sent Forssgren, which defines with greater precision the novelist's activities in the final months of his life; Forssgren's "Summary" of the first English biography of Proust, by George D. Painter, which provides many new details about Proust's last trip to Cabourg in 1914 and his attempts at seducing young men of the servant class; and the notes that Forssgren made in his copy of Painter's biography.

About the Author

Stephen Citron is well known for shedding fresh light on the American musical theater and the artists who inhabit it. His previous books include Songwriting, The Musical from the Inside Out, and biographies of Noël Coward, Cole Porter, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.