Author Name: McCourt, James
Title: Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Type: White Paper-Covered Boards
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated 2002
ISBN Number: 0394523628 / 9780394523620
Seller ID: 00171
Hardcopy and Brodart-wrapped D/J are both Very Good. The beyond-great Hollywood star returns in seven pyrotechnic tales that become - somehow - a family saga spread over seventeen years. WAYFARING AT WAVERLY IN SILVER LAKE encompasses friends, relations, and some passeby -- as James McCourt cocks a cas eye on the seven deadly sins. Some samples... In a story evoking pride, fountainhead of the other deadly sins, Hollywood star Kaye Wayfaring, semiretired now atop the Silver Lake Hills, like Marion Davies at San Simeon, is at home during the 1984 Olympics, contemplating the translucent Norma Jean ("Nobody ever went at lines the way she did"), while over at the studio, her colleagues review the highlights of her career, culminating in her scandalous, headline-grabbing Oscar snub. Lust is represented by Kaye, now back in business on location in Ireland, starring as the wanton Irish pirate queen, Granuaile. Kaye is sheathed in the part, waiting for the light, in County Donegal, balancing visions of sacred and profane love, during the first (and always lustful) day of principal photography. Gluttony is personified by Kay Wayfaring's son, Tristan, in the throes of adolescent meltdown, telling his beloved uncle the demented tale of his cross-country bus trip, forced landing, and rescue by south-of-L.A. beach bums, as he floats iinand out of consciousness. And sin itself, as in "sinfully delicious," is exemplified by James McCourt's new book, WAYFARING AT WAVERLY IN SILVER LAKE, from beginning to end.
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