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Milking the Moon
A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
by Katherine Clark ; Eugene Walter
ISBN: 0609605941
ISBN-13: 9780609605943
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Archibald MacLeish, Alice B. Toklas, Tallulah Bankhead, and other legends of literary and Tinsel Town fame are brought to life in witty anecdotes told by this insider who knew them all.
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"Eugene Walter was utterly unknown to me until I picked up MILKING THE MOON, looking for something to review for a slow Sunday in August. Well. All unwittingly, I was ushered into what can only be called a state of enchantment. I read for hours, not marching through the pages at the professional reviewer's accustomed brisk pace but lingering over and savoring each sentence. More often than I can count, I burst out laughing. At book's end I wanted nothing more than several hundred more pages in the company of this amazing man for whom the phrase sui generis clearly was coined, this unimaginably free spirit, this 'centrifugal' force who 'always [ended] up in the middle of something.'" -- Jonathan Yardley
-- Washington Post Book World
"Every anecdote here offers a surprising and serendipitous angle on a famous personage, whether Walter knew that person well or not."
-- New York Times Book Review
"This is a book to pick up and browse in whenever you need a quick lesson on how to live life to the fullest." -- Laura Miller
-- Salon
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2001
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.35 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 295
Publisher's Notes
“I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.”
-- Eugene Walter
Eugene Walter was the best-known man you’ve never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of “the ripened heart of life,” to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. He savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the 1920s and ’30s. He stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York. He was a ubiquitous presence in Paris’s expatriate café society in the 1950s, where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception. Perhaps most remarkably of all for a poor Southern boy, he spent the 1960s in Rome, where he participated in the golden age of Italian cinema–including a role in Fellini’s 8 1?2–and entertained some of the most famous people in the world.
As recorded by Katherine Clark toward the end of Walter’s life, his story–enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price–is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition. Most of all, this sumptuous oral biography conveys the spirit and charm of a truly unique American who defied the odds and authority, embarked on life, and went wherever his fancy and whimsy led him.
“Whenever I found myself in the presence of Eugene Walter, I thought that everyone’s life could be turned into a work of art. His was. Eugene Walter was a prince of whimsy and magic, and he turned his daily world upside down and made it elfin, cat-haunted, and hilarious. He could snap his fingers, and art would fall out all over the place. Milking the Moon has perfect pitch and flawlessly captures Eugene’s pixilated wonderland of a life. I am so grateful to Katherine Clark for the job she has done, for bringing this incredible man’s story to the page with such wit, panache, and style. I love this book–I couldn’t put it down!”–Pat Conroy
“Truman Capote lied to harm others; Eugene Walter, sometimes known as the other Capote, the good one, lied only to delight others.”–Gore Vidal
“Eugene Walter held the nearest thing to a salon; he was an unofficial reception committee and all roads led to him.”–Muriel Spark
“Eugene Walter is one of those personages who turn up in life and leave, well, an indelible impression in which all personal characteristics–manner, speech, dress, and so on– are memorably distinctive.”–George Plimpton, from the Foreword
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Eugene Walter
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Eugene Walter
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Milking the Moon : A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Walter, Eugene
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2001. 293 pgs. Larger than MM pbk. Excellant copy. Color is black w/ white lettering. Uncorrected Proof.. 1st. Trade Paperback. NF. ( more information) Offered by Snowball Bookshop (United States)
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MILKING THE MOON
WALTER, EUGENE
CROWN, 2001, FIRST PRINTING, NOT A BOOK CLUB EDITION, NEW HARDCOVER BOOK IN NEW DUST JACKET - UNUSED COPY, ( more information) Offered by A T QUINCY FINE BOOKS (United States)
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Walter, Eugene, and Clark, Katherine; Plimpton, George (Foreword by)
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001 xxiii, 295 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus.; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One corner lightly bumped. Fine DJ. "Eugene Walter was the best-known man you've never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of 'the ripened heart of life,' to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. He savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the 1920s and '30s. He stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York. He was a ubiquitous presence in Paris's expatriate café society in the 1950s, where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception. Perhaps most remarkably of all for a poor Southern boy, he spent the 1960s in Rome, where he participated in the golden age of Italian cinema - including a role in Fellini's 8 1/2 - and entertained some of the most famous people in the world. As recorded by Katherine Clark toward the end of Walter's life, his story - enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price - is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition. Most of all, this sumptuous oral biography conveys the spirit and charm of a truly unique American who defied the odds and authority, embarked on life, and went wherever his fancy and whimsy led him. / Katherine Clark is the author of Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story. She lives in New Orleans and is a professor of literature at Dillard University." - Publisher.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet
Walter, Eugene and Katherine Clark
NY: Crown, 2001. The dust jacket and boards are slightly shelf worn and there is light soiling to the edges of the boards. There is a faint impression on the top of the front free end paper where a name was erased. The binding is tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by J & S Books (United States)
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Milking The Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life On The Planet
Walter, Eugene (As told to Katherine Clark)
New York.: Crown Publishers.. (2001).. Soft cover.. 0609605941 . Very good condition. Uncorrected proof. ISBN 0609605941.; 293 pages . ( more information) Offered by Lodowick Adams, Bookseller (United States)
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Walter, Eugene; Clark, Katherine
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers. NEW/NEW in Mylar Cover. 2001. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0609605941 multiple copies may be available . ( more information) Offered by Glaeve Art & Books (United States)
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Milking the Moon : A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Walter, Eugene ; Katherine Clark
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). The interesting autobiography of Eugene Walter, a major literary figure of the American South and friend to many of the world's major writers and artists, who spent much of his time in Paris and Rome and other gathering points of creative people. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains glossy illustrations, 295pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare.. ISBN: 0-609-60594-1. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Autobiography, Memoirs, Biography, Authors, American South, Mobile, Alabama, Writers, Artists, Literature, Paris, Rome, France, Italy. ( more information) Offered by JB Books (United States)
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