Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the UK, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure. In 1985, he received the Medal of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

I found this battered novel in the basement of Black Squirrel Books in Ottawa, ON, buried in a pile of old, orange Penguin paperbacks (if you ever see a pile of old, orange Penguin paperbacks, do not walk away from them. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Attraverso questa figura e il programma che con essa si identifica Richard Stern propone una riflessione sulla vanità, sugli eccessi dell'esposizione mediatica e della fama, sulla trasformazione dell'industria dell'intrattenimento negli anni in cui aveva appena iniziato ad affermarsi con la tv e sul rapporto fra realtà e artificio.

Golk manipulates the high and mighty, the lowdown and dirty, and the outrageous weird; all are within the compass of Richard Stern in this early novel, a comedy with as many inspired maneuvers as its rambunctious protagonist has for taking the measure of a profligate world.

Golk is a self-made man, born with the surname Pomeroy in Rhode Island, but when he gravitated to New York after the second world war, he remade himself and devised his métier. It is midcentury America, the golden age of television, and a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Golk is a rich and marvelously detailed novel by a man with a cultivated intelligence; it is also the first really good book I have read about television.For the veterans among your Golk ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions. Fingering the battered cover and flipping through the yellowed pages inside, eventually the cashier saw my point and I purchased it for a mere two bucks.

There are shades of “The Great Gatsby” here—Holdorp as Nick and Golk as Gatsby—and the conclusions of each have the same wistful desperation. Richard Stern, professor of English at the University of Chicago, is the author of many works of fiction, including Other Men's Daughters, Natural Shocks, and the recent, much-acclaimed A Father's Words. The more combative the personality, the better the joke, and to help trap his victims Golk enlists a team of misfits, including Herbert Hondorp, a scholarly layabout turned photogenic decoy, and Jeanine Hendricks, a twenty-three-old debutante with a bitter worldview. It was a quiet and lovely stay, but it must be evaluated that behind the room wall was a big restaurant working late hours. Combining high drama with surreal hilarity and presenting a remarkably prescient view of the future of television, Golk ranks with Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust as one of the finest novels ever written about the American entertainment industry.

Through a devastating series of exposures-"You're on Camera"-Golk manipulates the high and mighty, the lowdown and dirty, and the outrageous weird; all are within the compass of Richard Stern in this early novel, a comedy with as many inspired maneuvers as its rambunctious protagonist has for taking the measure of a profligate world. Dust jacket designed by Jozef Gross] Dust jacket bright, fairly worn and rubbed with a number of small nicks tears and creases, front joint with inside flap is completely torn, now secured in a removable archival sleeve; Boards firm and clean, corners sharp, black titles; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation, light toning to the endpapers; Binding firm. As popular as You’re On Camera has become, he knows the show is capable of making a greater, more transformative impact. First UK edition first impression in VG condition, there is toning to the front endpage and an erased pencil mark, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has wear to folds and extremities along with some other wear, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.