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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385536445
ISBN-13
9780385536448
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Book Title
Chasing the Last Laugh : Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / General, Comedy, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2016
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Yes
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Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
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Hardcover
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1.5 in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
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6.5 in
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2015-036843
Reviews
"[D]eeply entertaining. . . . Zacks's narrative is well-researched with rich detail and it will strike ardent Twain fans and history lovers as fresh and inspiring." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "An amusing, singular account of the world tour by the nation's most famous humorist. . . . [A] rollicking history perfect for Twain's countless fans." -- Kirkus "[F]ast-paced. . . . A diverting--and revealing--look at a neglected episode in Twain's life." -- Booklist " Chasing the Last Laugh is a funny and poignant account of Mark Twain's late, epic struggle against debt and death. Richard Zacks has a brilliant eye for detail and the narrative gifts needed to bring out all that is strange, zany, and ultimately inspiring in this remarkable story of money, honor, and literary genius." --Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Swerve: How the World Became Modern and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare " Chasing the Last Laugh is an intimate and fascinating account of what was basically the world's weirdest book tour, starring the funniest writer America has ever produced. Mark Twain's own notes and letters enrich every chapter, illuminating not only his cranky genius but the private fears and turmoil that compelled him to pack up his family and hit the road." -- Carl Hiaasen, bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Strip Tease " Chasing the Last Laugh is something of a miracle. This book will be a joy and revelation for Twain fans. There is a lot new here. Twain's trip around the world--in which he speaks truth, through humor, everywhere--is a wonderful lens through which to see the dawn of America, the collapse of the British Empire, the early stirrings of colonial discontent in India. A new world is just being born and we're along for the ride as the sharpest observer watches and narrates it all. It is, also, a really good business book." --Adam Davidson, Co-Host of NPR's Planet Money "If you read only one book on Mark Twain, I would recommend Chasing the Last Laugh . There is everything you could want here: Twain's infinite humor and forbearance, the glistening world of the British Empire at its peak, five years on the road with possibly the funniest and wisest American of his time. Richard Zacks manages this vast subject with enviable skill. It's a great read, entertaining as well as deeply moving, and I will be circling back to its pages soon." -- Jay Parini, author of Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal and The Last Station "A fresh and absorbing account (involving carbuncles, platypus jokes, and a surprising bottom line) of an aging Mark Twain's outlandish passage from ruin to glory." -- Roy Blount Jr., author of Save Room for Pie, "[In] Chasing the Last Laugh , Richard Zacks's entertaining account of the international lecture tour Twain undertook in 1895 to pay his debts...Zacks's absorbingly detailed reconstructions of [Twain's] performances--the carefully honed timing, the shrewdly reworked and reshuffled greatest hits--will increase your appreciation of him as a show-biz craftsman.... Zacks packs page after page with the flavorful marvels he's culled from the writings of Twain and others." -- Bookforum "[D]eeply entertaining. . . . Zacks's narrative is well-researched with rich detail and it will strike ardent Twain fans and history lovers as fresh and inspiring." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "An amusing, singular account of the world tour by the nation's most famous humorist. . . . [A] rollicking history perfect for Twain's countless fans." -- Kirkus "[F]ast-paced. . . . A diverting--and revealing--look at a neglected episode in Twain's life." -- Booklist " Chasing the Last Laugh is a funny and poignant account of Mark Twain's late, epic struggle against debt and death. Richard Zacks has a brilliant eye for detail and the narrative gifts needed to bring out all that is strange, zany, and ultimately inspiring in this remarkable story of money, honor, and literary genius." --Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Swerve: How the World Became Modern and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare " Chasing the Last Laugh is an intimate and fascinating account of what was basically the world's weirdest book tour, starring the funniest writer America has ever produced. Mark Twain's own notes and letters enrich every chapter, illuminating not only his cranky genius but the private fears and turmoil that compelled him to pack up his family and hit the road." -- Carl Hiaasen, bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Strip Tease " Chasing the Last Laugh is something of a miracle. This book will be a joy and revelation for Twain fans. There is a lot new here. Twain's trip around the world--in which he speaks truth, through humor, everywhere--is a wonderful lens through which to see the dawn of America, the collapse of the British Empire, the early stirrings of colonial discontent in India. A new world is just being born and we're along for the ride as the sharpest observer watches and narrates it all. It is, also, a really good business book." --Adam Davidson, Co-Host of NPR's Planet Money "If you read only one book on Mark Twain, I would recommend Chasing the Last Laugh . There is everything you could want here: Twain's infinite humor and forbearance, the glistening world of the British Empire at its peak, five years on the road with possibly the funniest and wisest American of his time. Richard Zacks manages this vast subject with enviable skill. It's a great read, entertaining as well as deeply moving, and I will be circling back to its pages soon." -- Jay Parini, author of Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal and The Last Station "A fresh and absorbing account (involving carbuncles, platypus jokes, and a surprising bottom line) of an aging Mark Twain's outlandish passage from ruin to glory." -- Roy Blount Jr., author of Save Room for Pie, "[D]eeply entertaining. . . . Zacks's narrative is well-researched with rich detail and it will strike ardent Twain fans and history lovers as fresh and inspiring." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "An amusing, singular account of the world tour by the nation's most famous humorist. . . . [A] rollicking history perfect for Twain's countless fans." -- Kirkus " Chasing the Last Laugh is a funny and poignant account of Mark Twain's late, epic struggle against debt and death. Richard Zacks has a brilliant eye for detail and the narrative gifts needed to bring out all that is strange, zany, and ultimately inspiring in this remarkable story of money, honor, and literary genius." --Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Swerve: How the World Became Modern and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare " Chasing the Last Laugh is an intimate and fascinating account of what was basically the world's weirdest book tour, starring the funniest writer America has ever produced. Mark Twain's own notes and letters enrich every chapter, illuminating not only his cranky genius but the private fears and turmoil that compelled him to pack up his family and hit the road." -- Carl Hiaasen, bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Strip Tease " Chasing the Last Laugh is something of a miracle. This book will be a joy and revelation for Twain fans. There is a lot new here. Twain's trip around the world--in which he speaks truth, through humor, everywhere--is a wonderful lens through which to see the dawn of America, the collapse of the British Empire, the early stirrings of colonial discontent in India. A new world is just being born and we're along for the ride as the sharpest observer watches and narrates it all. It is, also, a really good business book." --Adam Davidson, Co-Host of NPR's Planet Money "If you read only one book on Mark Twain, I would recommend Chasing the Last Laugh . There is everything you could want here: Twain's infinite humor and forbearance, the glistening world of the British Empire at its peak, five years on the road with possibly the funniest and wisest American of his time. Richard Zacks manages this vast subject with enviable skill. It's a great read, entertaining as well as deeply moving, and I will be circling back to its pages soon." -- Jay Parini, author of Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal and The Last Station "A fresh and absorbing account (involving carbuncles, platypus jokes, and a surprising bottom line) of an aging Mark Twain's outlandish passage from ruin to glory." -- Roy Blount Jr., author of Save Room for Pie, " Chasing the Last Laugh is an intimate and fascinating account of what was basically the world's weirdest book tour, starring the funniest writer America has ever produced. Mark Twain's own notes and letters enrich every chapter, illuminating not only his cranky genius but the private fears and turmoil that compelled him to pack up his family and hit the road." -- Carl Hiaasen, bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Strip Tease "If you read only one book on Mark Twain, I would recommend Chasing the Last Laugh . There is everything you could want here: Twain's infinite humor and forbearance, the glistening world of the British Empire at its peak, five years on the road with possibly the funniest and wisest American of his time. Richard Zacks manages this vast subject with enviable skill. It's a great read, entertaining as well as deeply moving, and I will be circling back to its pages soon." -- Jay Parini, author of Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal and The Last Station "A fresh and absorbing account (involving carbuncles, platypus jokes and a surprising bottom line) of an aging Mark Twain's outlandish passage from ruin to glory." -- Roy Blount Jr.
Synopsis
From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy--and revived his world-class sense of humor Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace." But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the fifty-nine-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories--such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco--and spun them into a ninety-minute performance. Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day. The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped: "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H.H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century." In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life--one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph.
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- 2***2 (239)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzte 6 MonateBestätigter KaufWell, please with the seller, excellent communication skills, fast shipping; arrives the next day. I would work with the seller again. The seller has a great sense of packaging the items.Doing Business With South Africa by De Villiers Incorporated, 2nd Edition 1982 (Nr. 335732568738)
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