Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Free Pdf

ISBN: 0060839872
Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pdf An Inquiry Into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Published Date: 2005-08-02
Page: 464

“An unforgettable trip.” (Time)“The book is inspired, original. . . . The analogies with Moby-Dick are patent.” (The New Yorker)“Profoundly important...full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas.” (New York Times)“It is filled with beauty. . .a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace.” (Baltimore Sun)“A miracle . . . sparkles like an electric dream.” (The Village Voice) Robert M. Pirsig (1928-2017) studied chemistry and philosophy (B.A., 1950) and journalism (M.A., 1958) at the University of Minnesota and also attended Benares Hindu University in India, where he studied Oriental philosophy. He is also the author of this book's sequel, entitled Lila.

Note: The font size of the text in the book is 11.5 pt

A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better

A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.

This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

The most self righteous/pretentious thing I've read Was recommended this book, and was so disappointed. I hated every moment of it, wishing for it to end. But I still finished it.The best part is the narrative on the road with his son, the rest of the book, and 'philosophy' is rubbish. Pseudo intellectuals will love this book. Hipsters trying to be relevant will relish in it's self righteous nonsense.I didn't care for anything he was trying to 'discover', nor did I think it mattered. Really was just one giant wank fest for the writer.I haven't been this disappointed in a book in a long time.Read this. Then read it again decades later. In high school I would have told you this is my favorite book. I just re-read it 2 decades later. And I realize that I grasped about 20% of it at the time. Maybe. Something about the meandering philosophical flow captured my imagination at the time. But reading it now, as a father, I grasp the concepts underneath. I don't readily admit this but I wept at the end. Then I read the afterward and totally lost it. Beautiful, courageous work.

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Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) Pdf

ISBN: B07QYNQQMY
Title: Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) Pdf A Novel

New York Times Best Seller
Oprah's Book Club Pick

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions.

"Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is." (Zadie Smith, The Guardian)

"Just as wonderful as the original...Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life 'not unhappy.'" (NPR)

Named one of the best books of the year by:
Time Vogue  The Washington Post  Esquire Good Housekeeping The New York Public Library The Dallas Morning News  Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly BookPage

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force", and she has never done so more clearly than in this book, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire us - in Strout's words - "to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

Praise for Olive, Again:

"Olive is a brilliant creation not only because of her eternal cantankerousness but because she's as brutally candid with herself about her shortcomings as she is with others. Her honesty makes people strangely willing to confide in her, and the raw power of Ms. Strout's writing comes from these unvarnished exchanges, in which characters reveal themselves in all of their sadness and badness and confusion.... The great, terrible mess of living is spilled out across the pages of this moving book. Ms. Strout may not have any answers for it, but she isn't afraid of it either." (The Wall Street Journal) 

Enjoy Olive Again! First of all, you do not have to have read Pulitzer winning, “Olive Kitterage”, or seen the Emmy winning HBO series starring Frances McDormand, to thoroughly enjoy Elizabeth Strout’s follow up, “Olive, Again”, though I predict that you will want to.The success of the book and HBO series rests on Strout’s perfectly imperfect character, Olive. She is entirely unique and readers have a variety of reactions to her, mostly contradictory because she is. She is hard-nosed somewhat stereo-typically a cold north easterner, judgmental and blunt. She is also compassionate, sarcastically witty, and loyal. I’ve always thought that it would be difficult to be friends with Olive, but worth it.“Olive, Again”, like its predecessor (and like the two “Lucy Barton” novels Strout has penned in the interim), is a collection of inter-related stories about the denizens of Crosby, Maine, particularly in relation to Olive Kitterage. We meet some familiar characters, but also a few new ones. There is a disturbing story of a young girl who cleans houses and a strange relationship that follows. I was especially touched by the continuation of a story from the first book that relates a poignant conversation between the sister of a murderer and her parent’s lawyer as she returns to Crosby and her memories of growing up there. Evidence of Olive growing as an individual is in a piece where she visits a former pupil who has cancer. I loved these conversations so much because Olive reveals a lot about her marriages. Plus, it’s quite funny! Happily, one section brings us up to date on the Burgess boys - another of Strout's novels!I didn’t think of this eleven years ago when I first “met” Olive, but this re-acquaintance has made wonder if Olive is on the “autism spectrum”. Is she ignoring social cues, or is she missing them? Is her bluntness and thoughtless disregard for “niceties” because she doesn’t understand the need for them? Several times she does show empathy and concern for others’ feelings, but these episodes seem to come as a shock to even her. In any case, Strout beautifully “grows” Olive in this wonderful new novel. I knew I needed more Olive and I am thankful that Strout did, too!It’s a fast read even though I tried to slow down and savor it! Strout is such a wonderful writer, Frances McDormand is such a wonderful actress, let’s hope another HBO series is in the works!Not so great, save your money... Loved the first book but wasted my money on this one. Just a lot of drivel that went nowhere. I also didn’t like her digs against Trump. No need to work that into a storyline but it seems to be a trend from authors in Maine...SHE CREATES A UNIVERSE OF FEELING AND HUMANITY In still another absolutely superb collection of fiction, Strout (author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Olive Kittredge, year) demonstrates again that she knows a simple truth. That people are interesting. Not just famous people. People, period. All of us. Any one of us. Our lives aren’t linear, no matter whether they set out for them to be. They don’t go in straight lines. They twist and turn, diverge from the path and loop back, or head off in a wholly new direction where god knows what will happen. And the past comes back to bite us in the present in the way people see us and relate to us and in our regrets and second guessings about past behavior and deeds. Even if we say we don’t need others, we are tied to people around us in multiform ways.Witness the sleepy little town of Crosby, Maine, where Olive Kittredge, now in her seventies and widowed but for forty years before that a teacher of junior high math –she still encounters past students in the stores, restaurants and streets of Crosby. She meets a man named Jack, a retired Harvard professor, arrogant, even snobbish in his manner. He’d been shoved out of Harvard after he was charged with sexual harassment over an affair with a young colleague in his department. He’s a widower now too, riven with guilt for having cheated on his wife and shame over his public humiliation. In his prime, he was a young god but those days are far behind now: he’s overweight now, has a puffy round stomach that shames him, but then, so do his memories. Somehow, one time only, Olive and he wind up in bed together, not sex, but a relationship. And then she’d left and when he tried to get in touch with her, she didn’t respond. So to the first story, “Arrested”, in this set of separate but interconnected stories that collectively weave together into a novel about that strange but wonderful old woman, Olive Kittredge. But not just about her. Rather, they’re about her universe, the odd collection of people in and around Crosby who give meaning (and sometimes lack of meaning) to her life, as does she to theirs. It’s a wondrous way to craft a novel, “us/them”-=centered as much as “me.”The story! Jack’s having a bad day. He called to apologize to his daughter Cassie for the way he’d treated her for years: she’s lesbian and he’d never accepted that. The call didn’t go badly. It just didn’t go well. So he stops at the Regency Hotel bar to hoist a few and when he pulls away from the bar he’s pulled over by the police for driving too fast and having an overdue inspection certificate. He complicates matters by his attitude toward the police but finally he’s allowed to drive off –shamed again. But for what? The present events or his past offenses? His past drives his present. He sends an email to an old beau of his deceased wife to let him know she had died and when the man responds, finds that his wife had been having her own affair while he’d been having his. He has no reason to think that Olive Kittredge would want to get in touch with him again but he decides to try again, this time by letter.It’s three stories later before Olive’s front and forward in a story, but she pops up in different ways in between. In “Labor,” she goes to a baby shower and ends up delivering a baby in the back seat of her car. (It’s messy.) That leads to a conversation with Jack again and the start of what will be her second great relationship, ending in eight years of marriage with him. She’s peripheral in “Cleaning,” which is about a young, poor woman and her awful life cleaning for stuck up prigs. But she’s there.“Motherless Child” is one of the pivots of this extraordinary glimpses into people’s inner lives in this on the surface idyllic little Maine town. It’s about a visit: Olive’s son Christopher, his wife, Anne, and their four children, two older and two very young, visiting from New York City where they live conveniently far away from Christopher’s mother. The visit is a disaster and when Olive tells her son that she is going to get married again, to Jack, a Vesuvius of a disaster. Then Anne snaps at her husband, tells him to man up, and Olive has an epiphany: Christopher has married his mother because Olive behaved toward him the same way when he was young. She was not a patient mom. And now her son is locked in the same dynamic with his wife.I’m not going to go through all the stories in this collection. There are nine more! But all are about the same thing, though in different ways: the past always has hooks in us and we don’t really know what or who we are, we just move along, trying our best but buffeted by our feelings and the pressure of events. The end result is often not pretty or tidy. It just is.By the end, Olive is eighty-three or eighty-four, which is my age or a year older. Jack’s long dead and her first husband, Henry, looms larger in her memories now. She almost died from a heart attack and can no longer drive after dark. She living in an assisted living facility where her relations with the other residents are, let’s say, not always easy. She’s finally contemplating death. She doesn’t want it but she knows it happens.There is this marvelous passage one page before the end of this book: "[I]t was almost over, after all, her life. It swelled behind her like a sardine fishing net, all sorts of useless seaweed and broken bits of shells and the tiny, shining fish –all those hundreds of students she had taught, the girls and boys in high school she had passed in the corridor when she was a high school girl herself (many- most—would be dead by now), the billion streaks of emotion she’d had as she looked at sunrises, sunsets, the different hands of waitresses who had placed before her cups of coffee—All of it gone, or about to go."That is glorious writing. Olive contemplates her life and goes back to writing. This is what she writes: “I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.”But who does?

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Wild LA Pdf

ISBN: 1604697105
Title: Wild LA Pdf Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles
Author: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Published Date: 2019-03-19
Page: 332

​"You would be hard-pressed to find a group of people whose enthusiasm for nature is as infectious as the four authors of Wild LA.” —Los Angeles Times  "Whether you’re new to nature or an experienced hiker, just visiting or a lifelong Angeleno, I can almost guarantee you’ll learn something new and fascinating about the world around you after thumbing through Wild LA. And you’ll never look at the city the same way again." —Casey Schreiner, Modern Hiker “This travel companion will shed new light on all that flourishes and flowers, or creeps and crawls in the vast urban-yet-still-wild sprawl of the city and surrounding area.” —Publishers Weekly “Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild LAlooks at the factors that shape local nature.” KCRW “Full of resources to help you get outside and experience L.A.’s local wildlife.” —Redlands Daily Facts “Unbelievable…with ideas for day trips, field trips… LA is often called a concrete jungle, but it’s teeming with wild animals, insects, and plants.” —Press Play with Madeleine Brand “Engagingly written and beautifully photographed… Ideal for introducing Angelenos and tourists to the remarkable nature often overlooked when considering our city and region. . . the wonder and diversity of wild Los Angeles awaits you.” —LA Parent “[Wild LA] does a great job telling the story of nature in and around Los Angeles in a way that is interesting and easy to understand… Not only is the text reader-friendly, the book is also visually stunning… I highly recommend Wild LA to anyone interested in learning more about nature in Los Angeles.” —Clement Lau, UrbDeZine   Get ready for the field trip of a lifetime, led by the experts from the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County. Discover mammoths underneath Wilshire Boulevard, glimpse bobcats in Griffith Park, and stalk red-eared slider turtles in a Franklin Canyon pond. Meet dozens of local residents, mostly of the animal and plant kind. Equal parts nature guide and trip planner, Wild LA unveils the hidden nature in every park and canyon—and even your own neighborhood.

“Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels.” —Westways Magazine

Los Angeles may have a reputation as a concrete jungle, but in reality, it's full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it!  Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild LA has something for everyone. It looks at the factors that shape local nature—including fire, floods, and climate—and profiles over 100 local species, from easy-to-spot squirrels and praying mantids to more elusive green sea turtles, bighorn sheep, and mountain lions. Also included are descriptions of day trips that help you explore natural wonders on hiking trails, in public parks, and in your own backyard. 

I want to gift this to everyone I know who THINKS they know LA... As an LA native, I really appreciate books like this. Kudos to the Natural History museum!This is well-written and researched and offers great insights on local nature. Nice read for children and adults alike. It's a solid reference for anyone visiting LA or is curious about non-touristy activities and places to explore. I keep this in the guest room to encourage visitors to learn more about Los Angeles - shake the cliches and better understand the sprawling/complicated/beautiful place from a natural perspective.Nature is beautiful and everywhere! Bought this for my ecology major boyfriend. He loves the book, and as LA locals, we can't wait to find new places to take "field trips" to on the weekend! The illustrations and photos are beautiful, the writing is detailed and descriptive, and it's probably the best gift I've ever picked out for him!The Ultimate Guide to LA Nature This is a very fun book! The pros for me are that it's illustrated and full of interesting information such as what kind of wildlife and flora you can find in LA's most famous parks and green spaces - I had no idea that there was this much wildlife in LA! The book has photos and little stories about the creatures and green things in and around LA and I've been leaving it for visitors and coworkers. It's a great gift for any LA dweller and a good reminder that it's not all freeways and concrete here.

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The Tea Rose Pdf

ISBN: 0312378025
Title: The Tea Rose Pdf A Novel (The Tea Rose Series)

“It's so much fun ...this is London in the 1880s, the London of Charles Dickens and Edward Rutherfurd, a teeming, messy place full of business, dirt and poverty. Once in New York, we trip from the tenements of the Lower East Side to elegant dining at Delmonico's, with hardly a paragraph to catch our breath...the atmosphere of both starring cities is created in satisfying detail. One can walk the streets and listen to the people chat in the company of Jennifer Donnelly, who has done her historical homework...she delivers.” ―Washington Post“Time seems to stand still when The Tea Rose comes to life.” ―The Anniston Star“When you start reading Jennifer Donnelly's The Tea Rose give yourself plenty of time because this is a most seductive novel. You will travel from the rough, often savage, back streets of London to the glossy sophistication of New York's Fifth Avenue. You'll be charmed by the novel's heroine, Fiona Finnegan-her intelligence, her courage, her great heart. Despite her suffering-a lost love, a tragic family-there are moments you will want to cheer. It's the kind of novel where the writing is so fluid you feel the author simply loves telling her story. This is a splendid heartwarming novel of pain, struggle, decency, triumph-and just what we need in these times.” ―Frank McCourt“I loved this vividly atmospheric and wonderfully rambunctious yarn-brilliantly told, great fun to read.” ―Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman“Bold, brisk, and beguiling. The Tea Rose is splendid brew of a book.” ―Samuel H. G. Twining, LVO, OBE, director of Twinings Tea“The Tea Rose is the kind of book that calls for a rainy day, a cozy chair, and a good, steaming cup of tea. It's strong and satisfying, with a taste that lingers in the memory.” ―Paula Cohen, author of Gramercy Park“In the tradition of Barbara Taylor Bradford...steeped in romance and authentic period detail, this exquisite melodrama will appeal to fans of epic historical fiction.” ―Booklist“The novel's lively plotting, big cast of warmly drawn characters and long-deferred romantic denouement make this a ripping yarn.” ―Publishers Weekly“Readers will relish this rags-to-riches romance.” ―Library Journal“A hard book to put down until the final page.” ―Chattanooga Free Press“Donnelly's tale pulls the reader into its emotional depths and refuses to let go. Fiona Finnegan is a remarkable heroine.” ―Romantic Times Book Club, Top PickFollowing in the footsteps of such beloved epics as "A Woman of Substance," "The Thornbirds," and "The Shell Seekers" comes this towering story of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph... The Tea RoseEast London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.."Full of warmth and rich period detail, "The Tea Rose" begs for a comfy, overstuffed chair and plenty of time to keep turning those pages." "-Dallas Morning News" "Steeped in melodrama, revenge, and a maddeningly star-crossed romance...a fine yarn." -"People"

The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.

East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths.

Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.

Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.

But Fiona's dreams are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit-and the ghosts of her past-propel her rise from a modest west side shopfront to the top of Manhattan's tea trade.

Authentic and moving, Jennifer Donnelly's The Tea Rose is an unforgettable novel.

A fantastic first in this trilogy, and a new author for me to love! For more reviews, please visit http://fortheloveoftheread.blogspot.comDonnelly is an author that I've never read before, but she will easily become a new favorite of mine. This book was beautifully done. I loved how the author stuck to the accents each character had, adjusting her writing to illustrate those. This is an author who writes delicious sentences and descriptions, and this book is one I enjoyed falling into.I also loved the story, although it was often so heartbreaking that I couldn't help but feel sorry for Fiona. She lived a tough life. Growing up poor and eventually left to her own devices because of tragedy after tragedy, Fiona still manages to make something of herself and to reach her dreams. The author used Jack the Ripper as a way to move the plot forward and took creative liberties to tie him into her story. I loved this part of the book. Jack intrigues me, and as a villain he is most definitely a scary one. While the story was high on drama, I never felt like any of it was too wildly unbelievable. Each tragedy and success that Fiona experienced seemed plausible, although I often wished for a little more happiness for her. In the end, the story does work out, although there are many hardships on the way.The characters in this novel were all well done. My favorite was probably Nick, a man Fiona encounters on her way to New York who becomes a rock for her throughout the beginning of her new life there. Nick is often funny and cares about Fiona to a degree that almost no one else in the book does. He supports her in all endeavors that she undertakes, and who doesn't want a best friend like that? Michael, Fiona's uncle, was an interesting character, often funny because of his developing paternal feelings toward Fiona. Although many of Fiona's family is lost early in the book, those characters are also given a certain livelihood that sets them apart, a testament to the skills of development on Donnelly's part.Overall, I definitely recommend this book. It's sizable but quite worth it. There's enough story to keep the reader interested, and it's so beautifully done that it's a world readers won't want to leave.Best book I've read in a long time This is not a new book and I don't know how I missed it until now, but The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly is the best book I've read in a long time. This rather epic story begins with Fiona Finnegan and her family, chronicling their struggles to survive in London's Lower East Side. Fiona and her childhood friend, Joe, dream about the day when they can open a shop together and they scrimp and save every penny of their meager salaries toward that end. Fate intervenes and what follows takes the reader from Whitechapel, London, the backdrop of Jack the Ripper, to New York City's Golden Age. Ms. Donnelly portrays these settings vividly and in detail, so that the reader gets a true sense of the time period and surroundings. She also writes with great emotion, so the reader can truly feel Fiona and Joe's joys and despairs. I highly recommend this book to lovers of historical fiction!

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The Movie Musical! Download

ISBN: 1101874066
Title: The Movie Musical! Pdf
Author: Jeanine Basinger
Published Date: 2019
Page: 656

"An in-depth look at the Hollywood musical ... lively and informative ... the author is the perfect guide ... movie buffs and film students alike will applaud this delightful and insightful work."--Library Journal (starred review)"A lively history ... an essential addition to any film lover's library."--Kirkus"Exhilarating ... informative and insightful ... monumental."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)JEANINE BASINGER is the founder of the department of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written eleven other books on film, including I Do and I Don't; The Star Machine; A Woman's View; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Film History Award; Anthony Mann; The World War II Combat Film; and American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking, the companion book for a ten-part PBS series. She lives in Middletown, CT, Madison, WI, and Brookings, SD.

Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.

Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical--in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career.
     From Fred Astaire, whom she adores, to La La Land, which she deplores, Basinger examines a dazzling array of stars, strategies, talents, and innovations in the history of musical cinema. Whether analyzing a classic Gene Kelly routine, relishing a Nelson-Jeanette operetta, or touting a dynamic hip hop number (in the underrated Idlewild), she is a canny and charismatic guide to the many ways that song and dance have been seen--and heard--on film.
     With extensive portraits of everyone from Al Jolson, the Jazz Singer; to Doris Day, whose iconic sunniness has overshadowed her dramatic talents; from Deanna Durbin, that lovable teen-star of the '30s and '40s; to Shirley T. and Judy G.; from Bing to Frank to Elvis; from Ann Miller to Ann-Margret; from Disney to Chicago . . . focusing on many beloved, iconic films (Top Hat; Singin' in the Rain; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Sound of Music) as well as unduly obscure gems (Eddie Cantor's Whoopee!; Murder at the Vanities; Sun Valley Serenade; One from the Heart), this book is astute, informative, and pure pleasure to read.

Musicals For those of you enthralled by musicals and their history, this book is for you. It is filled with information, history and photographs from then and now.A treat for anyone who loves film or musicals In a book both scholarly and accessible to the general reader, Jeanine Basinger writes with wit and insight about the history and development of the movie musical and the artistic, business and cultural influences that shaped it.With her vast lore of film knowledge she puts the films and the artists who created them in an illuminating new light while correcting some wide-spread false assumptions about film history along the way. A treat for anyone who loves film or musicals.

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