Bücher von Michael Stewart

This is a saga of the silent film era, "when movies were movies": the story of legendary director Mack Sennett and his greatest star, the adorable Mabel Normand. Mack himself guides the audience through his tale of triumph, romance and regret. Bankrupted by the talkies and forced to sell his studio, Mack reminisces about his colorful past, including his bittersweet love affair with Mabel, whom he had discovered and guided to superstardom. Jerry Herman's celebrated score includes some of his most treasured gems, including "Time Heals Everything," "I Won't Send Roses," "Wherever HeAin't," and "Look What Happened to Mabel."

Why jump berms? Step over them.Why lean into the wind? Drive a car. Why ride a motorcycle? Every revolution of the wheel is an opportunity when you read between the lines. Explore, join the author as he tunes up. It's a quick trip down the path of life. Nothing out of the ordinary, but perspective is everything. Don't settle for the mundane. Scrape your state of mind.

Why ride the clutch through rambling descriptions, dissertations, backstory, travelogs, trip reports, and musings? Lean hard, twist the throttle, and get to the point! Scrape Your Lists:the motorcycleriding experienceexpressed in point form.Why is motorcycle riding not on top ten adventure lists?Move over skydiving, swimming with sharks, big game hunting, climbing to Machu Picchu, and other lesser activities. A group of friends roll out twenty-two lists to right a wrong. No products. No marketing. Just very important points stamped with two-wheel (and three) integrity.Fuel up. Rev your engines. Straddle the magic and feel the power of lists between your legs.

In France, 1940, an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish colonel who's trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car but can't drive; the colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey - set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances - that takes them to a carnival, a Jewish wedding, and, when the car breaks down, onto a train. Accompanying them is Marianne, the colonel's girlfriend with whom Jacobowsky falls in love. But it is not to be.

Mr Jolly is the first collection of short stories by Michael Stewart, and contains some of the award-winning novelist¿s most extraordinary writing to date. Each tale offers a unique, utterly compelling insight into the human condition, framed by a mind-bendingly original concept that no other writer working today could ¿ or indeed would ¿ have concocted. Readers will meet a conformity-obsessed league of bald men, breaking into homes for an extended debate about the nature of freedom; discuss the nomenclature of the marshmallow with a man whose single goal in life is to witness them accidentally skewered on stiletto heels; and meet God, in perhaps the most frustrating (yet believable) depiction of the divine being in modern literature.Last phone calls, alien abductions, murders and more are grounded in stories of struggling parents, baffled lovers and lost children (some of who may live permanently onthe number 606 bus). However long you live, and however much you read, yoüll never come across another book quite like this.