11 edition of The bride of catastrophe found in the catalog.
Published
2003
by Picador in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | Heidi Joh Schmidt. |
| Genre | Fiction. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3569.C51554 B75 2003 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 422 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 422 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3686429M |
| ISBN 10 | 0312281773 |
| LC Control Number | 2003049897 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 52312831 |
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The Bride of Catastrophe The achingly funny, often heartbreaking story of Beatrice Wolfe's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own.
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Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged.
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Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs. But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy.
Intended or not, though, McBride's Catastrophe of Success is the Dorian Gray reverse to Capra's famous autobiography of some 20 years previous.
Is this book an "attack" on Capra. And is it even a true picture of Capra. McBride had access to Capra in his declining years, and the reported conversations are sad, funny and revealing. Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success.
Frank Capra was the American success story, the immigrant from Sicily who not only realized the American dream but depicted it.Huge, richly researched, absorbing revisionist biography of the filmmaker renowned for standing up for ""the little man""; by the author of studies of Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, and others.
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