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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Matthew Specktor. |
| Summary |
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor's first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mother's cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or "cracking up," he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of "success" and "failure" that haunt the artist's life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of a place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It's a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists-Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others-and the author's own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores how curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Specktor, Matthew.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Specktor, Matthew.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781696606646 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696606640 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14316508 |
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