Bøger af Donald Newlove

New edition of the 1970 debut novel by Donald Newlove (1928-2021).

In 1937 Marlon Rambler, 67, an alcoholic movie photographer for 20th Century Fox News, loses a kneecap on the Yang-tze while aboard the U.S. Gunboat Panay when Japanese planes attack the ship. Back home in Greenwich Village, crippled and awaiting a gold kneecap, Marlon is led by his dear friend playwright Eugene O'Neill, himself a recovered alcoholic, into the care of Dr. Marie-Louise van der Streep, a white-headed Dutch virgin about to turn eighty, whose office lies across from Marlon's dusty basement digs on 10th street in Greenwich Village. When Marie-Louise slips in the rain and cripples both wrists, she accepts Marlon's offer to handle her bevy of famous writers, radio and movie folk for her birthday party--Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Thomas Wolfe, Aline Bernstein, Claude Rains and Fritz Kreisler, among others--after which romance blooms. Meanwhile Marlon handles the weekly arrival of the German dirigible Hindenberg for Fox News--which blooms into sheer horror overhead and leaves him as whiteheaded as Marie-Louise .. . .

Novelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.". . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' . . . its bird song and purling ravishment, bliss of self-love. . . . Like improvisational jazz . . . the Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is intoxication enough." - R.Z. Sheppard, Time"Newlove's memoir makes The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson seem like a dull college weekend. It is, quite simply, terrifying, a tale to chill the blood of anyone who's ever hoisted a drink in a bar. It is a book with both literary merit and social value of the most redeeming sort imaginable."- Judson Hand, New York Daily News"Those Drinking Days ought to be read. It is an astonishing, moving memoir."- Joel Oppenheimer, New York Times

Donald Newlove's The Wolf Who Swallowed the Sun is an enthralling and unorthodox dark fable, full of intrigue and comedy, and with a healthy dose of romance and sex. Written in 1998 but never before published, the novel is a sweeping saga of one family's greed, extortion, and double-crossing as they strive to acquire a controlling interest in the world's wealth. It is also the story of Billy Baxter, heir to this massive fortune who, with the help of a married couple of Chinese-Swiss Jungian psychologists (one of whom he has fallen in love with), seeks atonement for his family's sins. As an added twist that only a first-rate storyteller like Newlove could credibly pull off, Baxter also happens to be descendent from an ancient clan of humanoid wolves on the brink of extinction.

Originally published in 1978, Sweet Adversity is two novels in one. Author Donald Newlove edited his critically acclaimed novels of jazz-playing alcoholic Siamese twins, Leo & Theodore (1972) and The Drunks (1974), into a single volume, explaining in his Author's Note that "the story loses scope and focus when halved into two books."