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Pal Joey: the Novel And The Libretto And Lyrics

โœ Scribed by John O'Hara


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
388 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics

On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosbyโ€”a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey," he recounts his exploits with brash nightclub managers, shady business partners, and every pretty girl ("mouse") he meets. Charismatic yet conniving, Pal Joey is a smooth operator whose bravado and big ideas disguise a far less self-assured soul, caught up in the rags-to-riches dream of the Jazz Age.
Originally serialized in the New Yorker and the inspiration for the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical of the same name and the 1957 film starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth, Pal Joey is the story of a true "heel,"...


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