Ir al contenido

No hay imagen

Lost in the Funhouse; The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman

No hay imagen

Lost in the Funhouse; The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman

de ZEHME, BILL

  • Usado
  • Tapa dura
Estado
Ver descripción
Librería
Puntuación del vendedor:
Este vendedor ha conseguido 5 de las cinco estrellas otorgadas por los compradores de Biblio.
DUNEDIN, Otago, New Zealand
Precio
EUR 5.74
O solamente EUR 5.17 con un
Membresía Biblioclub
EUR 25.07 Envío a USA
Envío estándar: de 14 a 30 días

Más opciones de envío

Formas de pago aceptadas

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

Sobre este artículo

delacorte press 1999. octavo boards, illus, 368pp ex library with usual treatments VG in VG; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost d/w

Sinopsis

From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished, never-before-seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and key players in Andy's endless charades, many of whom have become icons in their own right, Lost in the Funhouse takes us through the maze of Kaufman's mind and lets us sit deep behind his mad, dazzling blue eyes to see, firsthand, the fanciful landscape that was his life. Controversial, chaotic, splendidly surreal, and tragically brief--what a life it was.Andy Kaufman was often a mystery even to his closest friends. Remote, aloof, impossible to know, his internal world was a kaleidoscope of characters fighting for time on the outside. He was as much Andy Kaufman as he was Foreign Man (dank you veddy much), who became the lovably bashful Latka on the hit TV series Taxi. He was as much Elvis Presley as he was the repugnant Tony Clifton, a lounge singer from Vegas who hated any audience that came to see him and who seemed to hate Andy Kaufman even more. He was a contradiction, a paradox on every level, an artist in every sense of the word.During the comic boom of the seventies, when the world had begun to discover the prodigious talents of Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and so many others, Andy was simply doing what he had always done in his boyhood reveries. On the debut of Saturday Night Live, he stood nervously next to a phonograph that scratchily played the theme from Mighty Mouse. He fussed and fidgeted, waiting for his moment. When it came, he raised his hand and moved his mouth to the words "Here I come to save the day!" In that beautiful deliverance of pantomime before the millions of people for whom he had always dreamed about performing, Andy triumphed. He changed the face of comedy forever by lurching across boundaries that no one knew existed. He was the boy who made life his playground and never stopped playing, even when the games proved too dangerous for others. And in the end he would play alone, just as he had when it was all only beginning.In Lost in the Funhouse, Bill Zehme sorts through a life of disinformation put forth by a master of deception to uncover the motivation behind the manipulation. Magically entertaining, it is a singular biography matched only by its singular subject.From the Hardcover edition.

Reseñas

Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)

¡Estás clasificando este libro como un obra, no al vendedor ni la copia específica que has comprado!

Detalles

Librería
Hard To Find Books NZ (NZ)
Inventario del vendedor #
223452
Título
Lost in the Funhouse; The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
Autor
ZEHME, BILL
Estado del libro
Usado
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Editorial
delacorte press 1999
Palabras clave
biography arts humour acting andy kaufman

Términos de venta

Hard To Find Books

Fast and professional shipping. All stock is returnable within seven days of receipt if it does not match description.

Sobre el vendedor

Hard To Find Books

Puntuación del vendedor:
Este vendedor ha conseguido 5 de las cinco estrellas otorgadas por los compradores de Biblio.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
DUNEDIN, Otago

Sobre Hard To Find Books

New Zealand's largest Bookdealer.We stock:History, First Editions, Military,Science, Law, Car manuals, Antiquarian, Genealogy, New Zealand, Travel, Art, Politics, Royalty, Aviation, Science, Technology, Humanities, Sport, Nautical,Poetry, Literature etc

Glosario

Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:

Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
VG
Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...

Categorías de este libro

tracking-