Author: Peter Coleman
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522859399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections. The Costello Memoirs charts the victories and defeats in one man's very public life.
The Costello Memoirs
Author: Peter Coleman
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522859399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections. The Costello Memoirs charts the victories and defeats in one man's very public life.
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522859399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections. The Costello Memoirs charts the victories and defeats in one man's very public life.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Author: Elvis Costello
Publisher:
ISBN: 0399167250
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0399167250
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Memoir
Author: Victoria Costello
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101559179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101559179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.
The adventures of a soldier; or, Memoirs of Edward Costello, narratives of the campaigns in the Peninsular
Author: Edward Costello
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Lou's on First
Author: Chris Costello
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This intimate portrait of Lou Costello (1906-1959) offers a rare look at one of the most talented comedians of all time. Starting in the 1930s, Costello attained enormous fame touring the burlesque circuits with straight man Bud Abbott (1895-1974). Their live skits (including "Who's on First?"), radio programs, and films such as One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and In the Navy made comic history. Behind the scenes, however, Costello faced numerous crises: a bout with rheumatic fever that left him bedridden for months, the drowning death of his young son, and constant haggles with Universal Studios over its reluctance to adequately finance productions of Abbott and Costello films. Lou's on First goes beyond Costello's clownish persona to explore his Pagliacci nature: the private demons behind the happy public face, the heartbreaking moments in an otherwise storybook marriage, the business ventures soured by unscrupulous managers, and the true nature of the breakup of his twenty-one-year partnership with Bud Abbott.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This intimate portrait of Lou Costello (1906-1959) offers a rare look at one of the most talented comedians of all time. Starting in the 1930s, Costello attained enormous fame touring the burlesque circuits with straight man Bud Abbott (1895-1974). Their live skits (including "Who's on First?"), radio programs, and films such as One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and In the Navy made comic history. Behind the scenes, however, Costello faced numerous crises: a bout with rheumatic fever that left him bedridden for months, the drowning death of his young son, and constant haggles with Universal Studios over its reluctance to adequately finance productions of Abbott and Costello films. Lou's on First goes beyond Costello's clownish persona to explore his Pagliacci nature: the private demons behind the happy public face, the heartbreaking moments in an otherwise storybook marriage, the business ventures soured by unscrupulous managers, and the true nature of the breakup of his twenty-one-year partnership with Bud Abbott.
This Is Not My Memoir
Author: André Gregory
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374713278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374713278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?
Complicated Shadows: The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello
Author: Graham Thomson
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782111638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Complicated Shadows paints a detailed and accurate portrait of an intensely private and complex individual. It draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career. Thomson also unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output using the recollections of those who were there at the time, the majority of whom have never talked on the subject before.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782111638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Complicated Shadows paints a detailed and accurate portrait of an intensely private and complex individual. It draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career. Thomson also unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output using the recollections of those who were there at the time, the majority of whom have never talked on the subject before.
Titanic Town
Author: Mary Costello
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A coming-of-age novel set against the sectarian conflict of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A coming-of-age novel set against the sectarian conflict of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
I Scare Myself
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 9781911036234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This vivid memoir of a man described as “one of America’s greatest songwriters” by Elvis Costello, and a cat that was “fly, sly, wily, and dry” by Tom Waits. Dan Hicks had a front-row seat to the birth and death of counter culture -- San Francisco, 1966 -- it would affect both him and his music. I Scare Myself captures the highs and lows of a lifelong adventure in music. You’ll get to see Hicks’ memories of one of the changes the 60s brought, working with great musicians, plus, a foreward by Elivs Costello; and afterword by producer Tommy LiPuma; and annotations by his close friend Kristine McKenna. “I just started taking ingredients I liked and putting them together to see what came out,” Hicks writes. What came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink and drug abuse. Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 9781911036234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This vivid memoir of a man described as “one of America’s greatest songwriters” by Elvis Costello, and a cat that was “fly, sly, wily, and dry” by Tom Waits. Dan Hicks had a front-row seat to the birth and death of counter culture -- San Francisco, 1966 -- it would affect both him and his music. I Scare Myself captures the highs and lows of a lifelong adventure in music. You’ll get to see Hicks’ memories of one of the changes the 60s brought, working with great musicians, plus, a foreward by Elivs Costello; and afterword by producer Tommy LiPuma; and annotations by his close friend Kristine McKenna. “I just started taking ingredients I liked and putting them together to see what came out,” Hicks writes. What came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink and drug abuse. Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.
Memoirs of a Ninja
Author: T. Y. Fish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781320469579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is my ninth book in total. Eight books of poetry and one book of short stories for children.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781320469579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is my ninth book in total. Eight books of poetry and one book of short stories for children.