- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac. Her first husband was world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and she once had a torrid love affair ...
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- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac. Her first husband was world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and she once had a torrid love affair with poet Robert Lowell. Her network extends to some of pop culture's greatest names. - Beloved title in Hochman collection. - Part of a beloved collection: Playing Tahoe is a part of Sandra Hochman Collection, which will re-release her critically-acclaimed titles. - Award-winning author: Sandra Hochman has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition Award, and is also the recipient of 1st Metropolitan Museum Award of Merit.
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Very Good in Fair jacket. Size: 8x5x1; No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. some light soiling to page ends, light edge wear to boards; jacket has numerous chips and closed tears, soiling and staining; At age forty she was Americas greatest pop lyricist. From rock and roll through new wave, Sylvia Lundholm and her composer-partner Nick Dimani made millions while creating the platinum records in which millions found the sound of their own longing and joy. Set against the background of the rock and roll music business in New York City and the casinos and hotels and ski lifts of Lake Tahoe, Playing Tahoe captures that specific moment in Sylvia Lundholm's life when she recognized that love was the one song she could not write, and that only by breaking with the superhype celebrity of her career might she learn in the hands of her new lover. Revson Cranwell was the male courtesan every woman wanted. He was cold, well-bred, indifferent. But he made her hot. She had everything else that money could buy. Now she wanted him. He was her song, her lover, her best friend. She would kill for him. But he would make that unnecessary. In Tahoe, at Harrah's, where Dimani is performing, Sylvia and Dimani meet to create a last great album that will cover the world with his music. But as the tendrils of Dimani's music threaten to clutch Sylvia back into the world she is so desperate to leave, the clash between her passion for Revson and Dimani's desperation for Sylvia's poetry erupts into cold-blooded violence. Playing Tahoe will give you insight into the world of rock and roll and big casinos. But above all it will teach you the games of a woman who, gambling for love, desperately wants to hold on to the richness of her own life. Sandra Hochman has created a novel that explores the guts of a woman in the midst of a change, who will overturn the American Dream to follow a stranger, Revson, who is a new antihero of modern fiction.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on the bottom edge else fine in fine dustwrapper. Female rock and roll lyricist falls in love against the backdrop of the New York and Tahoe rock music business.
