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A young girl comes of age in 1950s New York, where her shady father owns a garment district dress factory and her activist mother manages a promising Black musician
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MARTYN BURKE's previous novels include Laughing War, The Commissar's Report, Ivory Joe, Tiara, The Shelling of Beverly Hills, and The Truth About the Night. He is also a documentary film maker, whose Under Fire: Journalists in Combat won a Peabody Award in 2013. He has written extensively for film and television, most notably as writer of HBO'S timely and biting political satire, The Second Civil War; and writer/director of the hugely successful cable movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, which was nominated for five Emmys including Best Screenplay and Best Picture, the Producers Guild Award for Best Film, Directors Guild Award for Best Directing and the Writers Guild Award for Best Screenplay. His work has been nominated for numerous awards, including Emmys, Directors Guild, and Writers Guild awards. Recently, a series based on his novel The Commissar's Report, was sold to HBO. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he now lives half the year in Toronto and the other half in Santa Monica. As a journal
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Ivory Joe and the Classics are an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll band in 1950s New York. Through an accidental meeting, Christie and Ruthie's left-wing mother Tina becomes their manager. Although Tina is divorced from the girls' father Leo, a garment manufacturer with connections to the underworld, they are still very involved with each other, and the girls are constantly scheming to reunite them. Leo is jealous of Tina's connection wth Ivory Joe, and he gets drawn in when his gangster friends try to steal Joe's signature song. Told partly in Christie's voice and partly in that of an omniscient observer, the novel never comes fully to life. A marginal purchase, but film rights have already been sold, so there may be future demand.
- Janet Boyarin Blundell, Brookdale Community Coll., Lincroft, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Janet Boyarin Blundell, Brookdale Community Coll., Lincroft, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0553071823
- ISBN 13 9780553071825
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages303
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