Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Kanfer, Stefan

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375702075)

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Format: Paperback
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Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Kanfer, Stefan

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

$18.00
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Kanfer, Stefan

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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This definitive biography of one of the world's greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar.

Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years; the Marx Brothers, an act so funny W.C. Fields refused to follow it; the unprecedented Broadway success of The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers; the cinematic triumphs of Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera; and the marvelous come-back career as king of the game show hosts with You Bet Your Life. Here, too, is the man himself: a lonely middle child who aspired to be a doctor; a man who sabotaged three marriages; a father alternately indulgent and cruel. Intelligent and thorough, hilarious and sad, Groucho is a spectacular biography of the century's most influential comedian.

Author: Stefan Kanfer
ISBN-10: 0375702075
ISBN-13: 9780375702075
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2001
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.18w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2001 pg. 82
By Stefan Kanfer
By Stefan Kanfer
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Stefan Kanfer's books include The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, and Serious Business. He was the primary interviewer in the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Line King. A former writer and editor at Time and a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library, he has been a writer-in-residence at the City University of New York, the State University of New York at Purchase, and Wesleyan University. He lives in New York and on Cape Cod.

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