Word: hellion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Markham is a talking blues about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could not possibly be any worse than the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his career. A gambler, boozer, womanizer and general hellion, Markham tosses away eternity in exchange for a single, futile roll of the dice, then squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry. He nonetheless stumps Satan twice, escaping the first time and settling down the second time into a perverse sort of domestic bliss. Markham's good-ole-boy world view is distasteful: women are treated as property, and both defeats...
...Mothers -- And wife too. Gorgeous homemaker, spirited, nurturing, a vision of chic domesticity. Has loving, personable husband (whom I trust explicitly), an adorable child and a quiet new suburban home. Seeks more of the same, forever and ever. Amen. Will I protect my brood, come hellion or high water? You bet your wife. c/o BETH...
...more to do with art than with Brooke Shields. But for Albee, the purity of this book was just too tempting; he apparently couldn't wait to get his hands on Nabokov's little girl, turning her from an attractive but commonplace adolescent into a loud-mouthed hellion, screeching "Dad!" at her molester step-father and punctuating her speeches with an occasional "fuck...