Harrison Sings

Sterling Harrison Sings - South of the Snooty Fox Motor Inn [Audio CD]: Sterling Harrison Sings - South of the Snooty Fox Motor Inn [Audio CD] ISBN: B001BTYAUA
Excellent CD with clean disc, case and inserts.

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No Author / editor Stated. JOHN MCKAY SINGS DOROTHY HARRISON. 1972.
Minor edge wear. No interior markings. The music and lyrics to ten religious songs written by Dorothey Harrison four of which four were in collaboration with John McKay. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages.

Paperback, Singspiration; Very Good.

[SW: Music & Songbooks Religious Songs Gospel Songs Evangelistic Music Dorothy Harrison John McKay,]

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Harrison, Kathryn: Seeking Rapture - Scenes from a Woman's Life, NY Random House Inc 2003
ISBN: 0-375-50558-X Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Allison Saltzman; Book Design By Casey Hampton

"Harrison's affinity for vivisecting the soft underbelly of social mores-displayed in The Kiss, The Binding Chair, etc.-is vividly apparent in this series of autobiographical essays. Detailing aspects of a privileged girlhood lived with eccentric maternal grandparents while yearning to be with her beautiful but promiscuous mother (Harrison's parents married at 18 because Harrison's mother was pregnant; her father, the subject of The Kiss, vanished soon after), Harrison reveals bouts with eating disorders as well as an attraction to religious fervor (the rapture of the title). Raised concurrently with Christian Science and Catholicism, Harrison is fascinated by the complications wrought on the spirit by the body. She records bodily functions-e.g., vomiting, lice picking, childbirth-as avidly as she recounts the grisly mortifications of the flesh inflicted upon the saints. (In describing her mother's early death from breast cancer and her reaction to it, she illuminates the tale of St. Catherine of Siena's drinking of the cancerous pus of an enemy.) At times the prose sings, at others it merely plunks. Many of these essays are more self-revelatory than self-exploratory. The most evocative piece, the title essay, shows Harrison at her thoughtful, provocative best, mindful of the flaws and desires within everyone, while the essay on nitpicking for lice depicts an almost callous disregard for racial and class differences." - Publishers Weekly. "Diabolically compelling, Harrison holds readers' attention even when they find her fascination with obsession and pain more morbid than illuminating. In her fiction, which includes The Seal Wife , her taste for dark emotional extremes is alluringly venturesome, but in The Kiss (1997), her notorious memoir about her affair with her father, and now in her first essay collection, it can be transgressive. Harrison is daringly confessional and ravishingly poetic in her re-creation of her stressful California childhood, during which she did not know her father and slavishly worshiped her young, glamorous, ice-queen mother while her maternal grandparents raised her with a bewildering mix of quaint strictness and unintentional laissez-faire. No reader could ask for a more intriguing figure than Harrison's grandmother, who was born Jewish and raised in Shanghai, and the evolution of their complex love plays in plangent counterpoint to Harrison's tragic failure to win her mother's affection. Harrison's family portraits are vivid, involving, and resonant, as is her frank chronicling of her unhealthy beguilement with the martyrdom of women saints and her corresponding anorexia. Unfortunately, Harrison veers from the courageously cathartic to the dismayingly aberrant in excessive and creepy broodings over ticks, head lice, and cat births, oddities that detract from her otherwise lancing inquiry into longing and loss, fetishistic mourning and brute survival, and, finally, the miracle of munificent love." Donna Seaman - Booklist. xii, 194pp. Black faux quarter-cloth, black paper boards, silver gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket price 22.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book and dust jacket are in As New, unread condition. No remainder markings. Signed copies of this book are scarce. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: ALASKA FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL ROMANCE HISTORICAL]

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Life Magazine. Life Magazine 9/30/66 REX HARRISON as Dr. Doolittle. Chicago: Time Inc, 1966.

4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Life Magazine September 30, 1966. Vol. 61, No. 14. 140 pages. The magazine, in illustrated wrapper, is in VERY GOOD condition. The wrapper is intact with the stapled pages. The wrapper has chipping and closed tearing, particularly on spine edge. Chipping to first page outside edge. Minor shelf and edgewear to wrapper edges, mailng label on front wrapper. Pages are age darkened at edges. Two-page fold out cover includes color photos of actor Rex Harrison in the film Dr. Dolittle. OPINIONS AND COMMENT Editorials; Reviews; Letters to the Editors; The Feminine Eye: Culture's big super-event by Shana Alexander; BLAZING OPENING OF THE NEW MET The Lincoln Center spectacle overwhelms the music as a diva sings for the old Met's ghosts. Franco Zeffirelli's Antony and Cleopatra with Leontyne Price. Photographed by Michael Rougier; A475,000 house in jewels and white ties gala: photos by Toni Frissell include Mrs. Henry Ford II, the Nelson Rockefellers, U.N. official Marietta Tree, Senator and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Cecil Beaton; ON THE NEWSFRONTS OF THE WORLD Who would kill Valerie Percy?; THE PRESIDENCY Idea man Richard Goodwin for J.F.K. and L.B.J. has an idea the G.O.P. could use by Hugh Sidey; A WALK WITH REBECCA WEST Close-up of the noted British specialist in traitors, spies and weeds. By Jim Hicks; SCIENCE Electronic devices help blind to 'see' with ears; MUSIC The Mamas and the Papas-catchiest new sound since the Beatles. By Gerald Moore; CHINA SERIES CONTINUED THE SWEEP OF REVOLUTION AND THE YEARS OF WARLORDS Part II. The fall of the Manchus; the Sun Yat-sen Republic and how it was lost; ways of the West take hold but ancient hardships cling; Chiang Kai-shek's break with Communists and victory over warlords; a nation reunified; SPACE Geography lesson by Gemini II; the earth from 850 miles up; TRAILBREAKER OF THE DEEPS Willard Bascom-part Columbus, part Barnum-explores and exploits the seas. By Paul O'Neil; DEBONAIR REX PLAYS DR. DOLITTLE The beloved M.D. of children's fiction is brought to the screen by Rex Harrison. The author's son tells of a visit by his dude dad. By Colin Lofting; VISIT Philippine first family, President and Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos (Imelda) charms Lyndon Johnson; FASHION Eyes right for military flair; Miscellany Enough's Enough Ervin [Szocinski]. Paperback condition: Very Good

[SW: Sports]

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