Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating by Tiber, Elliot

Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780757003516)

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Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating by Tiber, Elliot

Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating

$24.95
Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating by Tiber, Elliot

Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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*** IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award WINNER (AUDIOBOOK - Nonfiction category) ***

Palm Trees on the Hudson is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber's bestseller Taking Woodstock. Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan's leading interior designers. Then Elliot's career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob.

In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York's rich and famous--politicians, financiers, and even Elliot's icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including rented palms, Elliot's event turned into financial disaster. Things couldn't get any worse--or so it seemed until the Mob paid a visit.

By turns comic and tragic, Palm Trees on the Hudson is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.

Author: Elliot Tiber
ISBN-10: 0757003516
ISBN-13: 9780757003516
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2010
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.37w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 11/22/2010
By Elliot Tiber
By Elliot Tiber
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Elliot Tiber (April 15, 1935-August 3, 2016) was a gay rights pioneer who wrote and produced numerous award-winning plays and musical comedies. As a professor of comedy writing and performance, he taught at the New School and Hunter College in Manhattan. His first novel, Rue Haute, was a bestseller in Europe, and was published in the United States as High Street. The novel was made into a 1976 French-language feature film adapted and directed by coauthor and partner André Ernotte. As a humorist, Mr. Tiber appeared on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, and CNBC, as well as on television shows in Franch, England, Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Belgium, and elsewhere throughout the world.

Mr. Tiber's memoir Taking Woodstock, which he wrote with Tom Monte, was first published in 2007 and was soon after turned into a feature film by director Ang Lee. He is also the author of another memoir that explored his life before Woodstock called Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating. In addition to his work as a writer, Tiber was a highly sought-after lecturer who appeared in many international venues. In his final years, Mr. Tiber lived in the Miami Beach section of Florida, where he continued his work as a writer; a painter; and a humorist.

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