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Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in...
The first book in more than ten years from "the creator of the last great American comic strip" (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another,...
On the Waterfront came perilously close to never being produced because as Darryl Zanuck put it when he rejected the script, "Who's going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?" Zanuck could not see that On the Waterfront was a natural...