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...private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer, film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers grin, giggle, gasp, even explode into laughter...
...Romain Gary. 244 pages. Harper...
From Edna Ferber to Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, his list of clients reads like the world's best-kept book of unlisted phone numbers. "I call myself a literary agent," says Lazar, "simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents." He also handles composers (Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers), choreographers, etc. For Rodgers, he recently sold The Sound of Music to 20th Century-Fox for $1,250,000, and for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe he peddled Camelot to Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal...
...France was the cultural capital of the world, and Gary's incurably romantic mother decided that was the place for her genius son. By painful contrivance and slow stages, she got herself and her son out of Russia, across Poland and at long last to France. In succession, Romain failed her as a violinist (his teacher used to hold his hands over his ears when the boy played), as a dancer (Mama took after his homosexual instructor with her cane), and as an actor...
...embarrassed him, of course. When he sold his first story to a Paris magazine, she carried a copy of it in her purse and read it with eloquence to shoppers and merchants. So fearful was Romain of disappointing her that when he failed to sell another story for months, he sent her others, written, so he said, under pseudonyms. She believed...