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" Landesmania! : "
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BL
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967534
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b721904
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| Main Entry
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Trevena, Philip.
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Landesmania! : : a Biography.
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| Publication Statement
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Richmond :: Tiger of the Stripe,, 2006.
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1 online resource (168 pages)
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| ISBN
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1904799140
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: 9781904799146
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190479906X
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9781904799061
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| Contents
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Title; Who is Jay Landesman and does the 20th century owe him a favour?; 'I do not know myself and God forbid that I should' (Goethe); 'I share no one's ideas. I have my own' (Ivan Turgenev); 'Ordinariness is contagious. Avoid it like the plague' (Samuel Pepys); His opinion of himself, having once risen, remained at "set fair" ' (Arnold Bennett); 'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream' (Malcolm Muggeridge); 'Is Sex Dirty? Only if it is done right' (Woody Allen); 'The desires of the heart are as crooked as a corkscrew' (Auden).
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Biography of Jay Landesman, a leading light of the Beat Movement, whose Crystal Palace Bar in St Louis introduced Woody Allen and Barbara Streissand to an eager public. 'Jay and Fran Landesman could be accused of starting it all. By God, they were there at the beginning!' - NORMAN MAILER.
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Landesman, Jay
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Landesman, Jay.
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Crystal Palace (St. Louis, Mo.)
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Landesman, Jay.
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Publishers and publishing-- Great Britain-- Biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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070.50924
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Z325 .L24
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