Chasing the Last Laugh
How Mark Twain Escaped Debt and Disgrace with a Round-the-World Comedy Tour
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the 1890s, Mark Twain came back from the dead. The famous author s career was collapsing, his masterpieces were at risk of falling into oblivion, and he was even mistakenly reported dead. But Twain orchestrated an amazing late-in-life comeback from...
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In the 1890s, Mark Twain came back from the dead. The famous author s career was collapsing, his masterpieces were at risk of falling into oblivion, and he was even mistakenly reported dead. But Twain orchestrated an amazing late-in-life comeback from bankruptcy, bad reviews, and family disaster by setting out on an unprecedented international comedy tour to restore his fortunes. Richard Zacks s Chasing the Last Laugh captures some of Twain s cleverest and funniest moments many newly discovered in unpublished notebooks and letters as he rode elephants in India, sorted diamonds in South Africa, and talked his way out of hell ninety minutes at a time. This untold chapter in the author s life began with ridiculously bad choices and ended in hard-won triumph. Autoren-Porträt von Richard Zacks
Richard Zacks is the bestselling author of Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York; Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805; Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd; History Laid Bare; and An Underground Education. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and many other publications. He attended the University of Michigan and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he now lives in New York City.
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- Autor: Richard Zacks
- 480 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Anchor Books
- ISBN-10: 0345802535
- ISBN-13: 9780345802538
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2017
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Englisch
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