This collection of essays, profiles, interviews and reviews reveals the roots of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Kennedy's prose. In over 80 selections, he takes on a variety of personalities, passions and interests, from Damon Runyon to Frank Sinatra, from baseball to scrambled eggs and from the death of a prominent cat to his wife's hiccups.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Kennedy presents an engaging, miscellaneous collection of essays, articles and reviews spanning the last 40 years.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The quality is always there even if the subject matter doesn't always intrigue,
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This review is from: Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfiction (Paperback)
William Kennedy's career as a journalist serves as the basis for this collection of his non-fiction. Broken into sections that discuss writing, writers, book reviews and a variety of character studies, RIDING THE YELLOW TROLLEY has a sense of organization often missing from this type of collection. There are a number of fascinating pieces here, from the dynamic interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez (which provides the title for this collection) to wonderful sketches about Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. But the problem is there are just as many book reviews and profiles of writers where the subject matter just didn't hold my interest. Kennedy is a writer of talent and his career in journalism gives a solid foundation for this type of collection; I just found his insights that centered on personalities more intriguing than those where writing was the focus.
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The Yellow Trolley Car is a realistic, or perhaps surrealistic, vision I may, or may not, have had in Barcelona in 1972 when I was there to interview Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Puerto Rico, Garcia Márquez, Puerto Rican, United States, William Kennedy, San Juan, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Francis Phelan, Billy Phelan, Don Juan, Latin American, Leaf Storm, Cien Años, North Albany, Saul Bellow, Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer, Civil War, Dos Passos, José Arcadio, National Book Award, Nobel Prize, Pedro Juan Soto New!
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The Yellow Trolley Car is a realistic, or perhaps surrealistic, vision I may, or may not, have had in Barcelona in 1972 when I was there to interview Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Puerto Rico, Garcia Márquez, Puerto Rican, United States, William Kennedy, San Juan, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Francis Phelan, Billy Phelan, Don Juan, Latin American, Leaf Storm, Cien Años, North Albany, Saul Bellow, Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer, Civil War, Dos Passos, José Arcadio, National Book Award, Nobel Prize, Pedro Juan Soto New!
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