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Bottle Fly

Goldfinger Jacqueline, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300235012, Yale University Press, November 2018
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together. It is a powerful story born ou...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Gabler Neal

ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...

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Fiction

Performing Arts

Faust A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von, Greenberg Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780300189698, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A classic of world literature, Goethe's "Faust" is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles – dramatic and...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Lillian Hellman An Audacious Life

Gallagher Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300164978, Yale University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written "The Children's Hour", the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of Americ...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Gross Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...

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Culture Studies

Performing Arts

Conversations Across Borders

Gomez-Pena Guillermo

ISBN: HB: 9781906497507, Seagull Books, September 2011
452 pp., 19.1x21.6 cm, 35 halftones

For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artis...

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Music

Performing Arts

French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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Performing Arts

Chekhov's Plays An Opening into Eternity

Gilman Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300072563, Yale University Press, September 1997
286 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

"The Cherry Orchard", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", and other plays of Anton Chekhov have been acclaimed by audiences and readers since they first began appearing in the late nineteenth century. In this eloquent and insightful book,...

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