236 pages, with some photo illustrations - and black and white drawing decorations. Signed by the author. Some writing on front free end page, otherwise tight and clean. Dust jacket is bright, crisp and clean - but price clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Shadow Show, An Autobiographical Insinuation

Publisher

Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, New York

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0912383240

ISBN 13

9780912383248

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The author gathers together interviews, remembered encounters, and critical writings from his varied past and shows that throughout his life, he has been influenced as much by those who loved him as those who loathed him

Reviews

Dropping his American Indian persona to tour life-styles of the rich, famous, artistic, and dead, pop culturist and former rock journalist Highwater offers 31 vignettes (of Nin, Sontag, Trumbo, Cocteau, Kristofferson, Joplin, and so on). A testimony to the art of superficial namedropping, these reminiscences are opportunistic and degrading. We learn little of Highwater except that he believes himself to be the misunderstood victim of mean critics. From the opening reliance on Proust ("words and actions can only give us inadequate and contradictory information") to the concluding manipulation ("people who are tormented by their own insignificance . . . detest those who exceed them"), this book has something to annoy everyone. Rhoda Yerburgh, Adult Degree Program, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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