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GENIUS
Estate of Edward Tanner (Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame), GENIUS, originally published in 1962; reissued in 2018 by Chicago Review Press. Adelphi/Italy; Acantilado & Quaderns Crema/Spain; Flammarion and J'ai Lu.
GENIUS, social satire at its finest, is the story of film director Leander Starr (inspired by Orson Welles), who has been chased by American tax officials to the expatriate community of Mexico City, where he collides with an American novelist who has a terrible case of writer's block.
GENIUS, social satire at its finest, is the story of film director Leander Starr (inspired by Orson Welles), who has been chased by American tax officials to the expatriate community of Mexico City, where he collides with an American novelist who has a terrible case of writer's block.
From the author of Auntie Mame, Genius is a hilarious satire of filmmaker Orson Welles
Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, bestselling author Patrick Dennis turns his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional film director Leander Starr. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartmentCasa Ximenezwith his faithful valet, Alistair St. Regis. Soon others descend on the villaStarr's ex-wife, his estranged socialite daughter, a shady Mexican film producer, a tax collector who has chased Starr around the world, and a dim young widow sitting on a fortune in laxative stock. Starr concocts a plan to distract them all: an abbreviated cinematic epic covering the history of Mexico titled Valley of the Vultures, starring them. Will the scheme work? In addition to Dennis's uproarious novel, this fresh edition includes a long-lost short story of Leander Starr, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Railway Station," as well as a new afterword by the author's son.
Edward Everett Tanner III (1921-1976), alias Patrick Dennis, war von 1950 bis 1960 einer der meistgelesenen Autoren Amerikas. Fast alle seiner sechzehn Romane waren Bestseller, darunter auch der Kulterfolg Darling, ich bin deine Tante Mame (1955), Vorbild fuer ein Theaterstueck, ein Musical und einen Hollywoodfilm mit Rosalind Russell in der Titelrolle. Tanner war eine schillernde Figur und eine Beruehmtheit in der New Yorker Bohème. Als ihm im Jahr 1970 der finanzielle Ruin drohte, nahm er eine Stelle als Butler an, ein Beruf, den er bis zum Ende seines Lebens ausuebte.
Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, bestselling author Patrick Dennis turns his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional film director Leander Starr. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartmentCasa Ximenezwith his faithful valet, Alistair St. Regis. Soon others descend on the villaStarr's ex-wife, his estranged socialite daughter, a shady Mexican film producer, a tax collector who has chased Starr around the world, and a dim young widow sitting on a fortune in laxative stock. Starr concocts a plan to distract them all: an abbreviated cinematic epic covering the history of Mexico titled Valley of the Vultures, starring them. Will the scheme work? In addition to Dennis's uproarious novel, this fresh edition includes a long-lost short story of Leander Starr, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Railway Station," as well as a new afterword by the author's son.
Edward Everett Tanner III (1921-1976), alias Patrick Dennis, war von 1950 bis 1960 einer der meistgelesenen Autoren Amerikas. Fast alle seiner sechzehn Romane waren Bestseller, darunter auch der Kulterfolg Darling, ich bin deine Tante Mame (1955), Vorbild fuer ein Theaterstueck, ein Musical und einen Hollywoodfilm mit Rosalind Russell in der Titelrolle. Tanner war eine schillernde Figur und eine Beruehmtheit in der New Yorker Bohème. Als ihm im Jahr 1970 der finanzielle Ruin drohte, nahm er eine Stelle als Butler an, ein Beruf, den er bis zum Ende seines Lebens ausuebte.
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