The Time is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford OdetsAuthor: Clifford OdetsTitle: The Time is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford OdetsPublication: Grove PressEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Grove Press, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light spotting to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller ID: 317036Subject: Literature We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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When Odets kept this diary in 1940, his best plays were behind him, his drama Night Music had just failed, the Group Theatre was falling apart and so was his marriage to movie star Luise Rainer, from whom he had separated. This egotistical journal is introspective but lacks self-insight. The author of Waiting for Lefty bitterly writes that one can "never trust an American audience to understand" a complex character. He smolders with resentment toward "neurotic" Rainer and rhapsodizes about his girlfriend Bette Grayson, who would soon become his wife; he pans director Harold Clurman's "lamentable bungling"; philosophizes about Beethoven and projects his own misery onto Berlioz, Mozart and Leopold Stokowski. The diary is mainly of interest for its gossip about Fay Wray, Elia Kazan, Theodore Dreiser, Louis Nizer, George Balanchine, Walter Winchell, others. Photos. First serial to American Film.
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Clifford Odets kept a journal only in 1940, an important year for the playwright. After a decade of successes, the year began with the failure of Night Music . Odets's private life also reflected the world's anxiety in that year. His journal shows a gigantic ego lavishing severe judgment on friend and enemy alike, and an overactive libido seeking the perfect woman (he had access to a breathtaking array of them). Although Odets was hard on everyone, he judged himself most severely. This journal records the dark journey of a life and time out of joint yet seeking their proper form. Interspersed are glimpses of major figures in modern American theater and film. Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.
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