"In the 1990's Sarah Schulman saw the relevance of the McCarthy era to contemporary American life, and the impact of its unaddressed consequences. But with an innovative vision, she chose to transpose the classic tropes of 1940's and 50's American cinema by positioning a Black straight man and a Queer Jewish woman as the emblematic Americans, through whose eyes we revisit our nation's complex past. Set before the advent of the collective revolutionary movements of the 1960's these individuals, Cal and Sylvia want the ... Read More
"In the 1990's Sarah Schulman saw the relevance of the McCarthy era to contemporary American life, and the impact of its unaddressed consequences. But with an innovative vision, she chose to transpose the classic tropes of 1940's and 50's American cinema by positioning a Black straight man and a Queer Jewish woman as the emblematic Americans, through whose eyes we revisit our nation's complex past. Set before the advent of the collective revolutionary movements of the 1960's these individuals, Cal and Sylvia want the promise of The American Dream, and find out the hard way that - alone- it is not available to them. Using set pieces of mid-century Americana: The Steno Pool, The Stork Club, The Bar and Grill, and snappy comebacks of film noir, Schulman was decades ahead in reimagining whose stories could tell the collective history"-- Read Less
Add this copy of Shimmer to cart. $20.93, good condition, Sold by SELL BOOKS LTD rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1961 by Avon Books.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. whisper of shelfwear to the jacket, else like new, first printing thus. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 273 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has some edgewear and small closed tear. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 273 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has minor shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards and some dusting to the top of the pageblock. By the Bill Whitehead Award-, Guggenheim Fellowship-, Fulbright Fellowship-, Kessler Prize-, Stonewall Book Award-, Publishing Triangle Award-, Ann Snitow Prize-, and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award-winning playwright and author of 'Maggie Terry' and 'Rat Bohemia'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Modest wear, very good or better. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from Jennifer Hershey, Executive Editor of Avon Books, to Bradford Morrow, inquiring after the possibility of a blurb.
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