Niagara Falls All over Again - Hardcover

McCracken, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385318375 ISBN 13: 9780385318372

Verlag: Dell Pub Co, 2001

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Book by McCracken Elizabeth

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During thirty years together as the most famous comedy team of their era, conniving comedian Rocky Carter and his straightman, Mose Sharp, a small-town boy from Valley Junction, Iowa, have enjoyed a warm relationship and encountered a host of colorful characters on their road to fame and fortune, until Rocky commits a desperate act of betrayal. 50,000 first printing.

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ceful and knowing, funny and moving, Niagara Falls All Over Again is the latest masterwork by National Book Award finalist and author of The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken.

Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss. In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero: Mose Sharp — son, brother, husband, father, friend ... and straight man to the fat guy in baggy pants who utterly transforms his life.

To the paying public, Mose Sharp was the arch, colorless half of the comedy team Carter and Sharp. To his partner, he was charmed and charming, a confirmed bachelor who never failed at love and romance. To his father and sisters, Mose was a prodigal son. And in his own heart and soul, he would always be a boy who once had a chance to

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• Verlag: Dell Pub Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385318375
• ISBN 13: 9780385318372
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308