Ghost Light: a Memoir - Hardcover

Rich, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679452990 ISBN 13: 9780679452997

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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Book by Rich Frank

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The "New York Times" drama critic describes growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1950s and 1960s and explains how he found refuge from the turmoil of childhood and his own parents' divorce in the great Broadway musicals.

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uperstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theater itself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a child finding his way in a tumultuous world.

Rich grew up in the small-townish Washington, D.C., of the 1950s and early '60s, a place where conformity seemed the key to happiness for a young boy who always felt different. When Rich was seven years old, his parents separated--at a time when divorce was still tantamount to scandal--and thereafter he and his younger sister were labeled "children from a broken home." Bouncing from school to school and increasingly lonely, Rich became terrified of the dark and the uncertainty of his future. But there was one thing in his life that made him sublimely happy: th

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679452990
• ISBN 13: 9780679452997
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 315