Julian M Olf

Gebundenes Buch

The Book of Linguini

A Romance Set in the Borough of Queens

Illustrator: Meagher, Nancy

Beschreibung

Meet Edie Griszbowski and Mister Linguini, two highly unusual people whose lives converge. In the zany, warm world of Linguini, Edie struggles to master the art of ventriloquism. After weeks of trying unsuccessfully to throw her voice into her cat Leopold, Edie gives up, and takes a job as a part-time clerk at the Queens County Coroner's Office. Her unique ways of honoring dead people led to her meteoric rise in office responsibilities. She meets Mister Linguini when the two collide in the office hallway. Looking up from her position on the floor, Edie can't help but notice that the giggling little man lying on top of her has the very qualities she's always admired in men: he's hairless, the lobes of his ears are soft and large, and he's almost as round as he is tall. It will be awhile before she learns about his finest attribute, the glorious tongue after which he gets his name, Linguini. The courtship, marriage, and wedding celebration unfold among pranks, wild mishaps, love, and laughter. In the world of Linguini, the unusual is right. And the very unusual, like the large, beautiful tongue that Linguini keeps rolled up and tucked neatly behind his tongue, is even more right. Experience the twists and turns of a romance that rocked the Borough of Queens, one that people talk about to this very day.

Autor

Julian Olf (1942-2019) was a distinguished professor of theater and award-winning playwright. Many years ago he enjoyed spinning bedtime tales for his daughter, Kimiko. The stories, about a fanciful family named Linguini, became part of a requisite nighttime ritual that lasted throughout her youth. Decades later he revisited that family in The Book of Linguini: A Romance Set in the Borough of Queens, a picture book for young adult (and not-so-young) readers. As a children's magician, the head counselor and program director of a camp for children with cardiac issues, founding board member of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School, and professor of theatre at the University of Massachusetts, Olf worked with young adults throughout his career. His plays have been performed widely and to excellent reception. Winner of the Nantucket Short Play Award in 2004, Olf also received a 2012 Julie Harris Playwright Award for his play Judith, a full-length play inspired by the biblical tale of Judith and Holofernes. His screenplay Anthony, a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, won a Gold Award in 2000 at the Worldfest International Film Festival, Houston. His play (People Almost Always Smell Good in the Art), with the title intentionally in parenthesis, was published in The Massachusetts Review (fall, 2008) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His short story "Rough Cut" (The Great Stream Review, April 1992) won the Fern Chertkow Memorial Award for Fiction. Olf spent his early childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by the arts. His father, a Yiddish folksinger, was a recording artist and actor; his mother, a pianist and music teacher. He received his early arts education at the Henry Street Music School and the High School of Music and Art (NYC). He earned a BA in English from Union College, an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and a PhD in Drama and Cinema from New York University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vandenberg Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9781734327816
• ISBN-10: 1734327812
• Artikelnr.: 59599498