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Scraps, Orts, and Fragments : Pieces of a Life by Michael Rosenthal (2025, Hardcover)

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PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101648211461

ISBN-139781648211461

eBay Product ID (ePID)22075464173

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Book TitleScraps, Orts, and Fragments : Pieces of Alife

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPersonal Memoirs

Publication Year2025

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorMichael Rosenthal

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsPRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR BARNEY "Setting up shop on the corner where the mid-century avant-garde met Victorian pornography, Barney Rosset helped crack wide open the staid world of American publishing. Michael Rosenthal's smart and candid biography captures the insatiable spirit of an oft unlovely but always intrepid literary daredevil."--Sean Wilentz "Illuminating, insightful, and informative--a piquant portrait of a renegade publisher."--Kirkus Reviews "From the opening sentence of this marvelous, fleet, perfectly rendered portrait of Barney Rosset--the most important American book publisher of the twentieth century . . . to its last--Michael Rosenthal has created an elegant, clear-eyed, irresistibly readable account of the renegade publisher who tore himself and the reading public through the rusting gates of American Puritanism and censorship. In this book Rosenthal has done his subject and his readers superb service."--Ric Burns THE CHARACTER FACTORY ". . . a fascinating study, not merely of the Boy Scout movement but of a violent and bewildered age. Among other things it is a key to the imperial mind."--Paul Theroux NICHOLAS MIRACULOUS "The reissue of Michael Rosenthal's NICHOLAS MIRACULOUS, is cause for celebration on at least three counts. It reaffirms the book's literary excellence, attests to its value as a work of history, and shows why biography--the most maligned branch of modern literature--is a necessity in any culture aspiring to understand itself."--Patricia O'Toole

SynopsisScraps, Orts, and Fragments: Pieces of a Life is a collection of essays, written in fits over several years, comprising what the title suggests: snapshots of a life without any attempt to fashion them into a coherent narrative. Michael Rosenthal explores subjects as diverse as his teen-age fascination with Hubert's Flea Circus on New York's 42nd Street; life with his stoic father; sex in the fifties (for "Nice Horace Mann boys"); a brief and unspectacular performance as a janitor while a graduate student in Wisconsin; step-fathering; assorted aspects of a long career as a college Dean; and Rosenthal's tenure as a member of the Board of Directors of a wildly successful company on the New York Stock Exchange. And other memorable moments . . . some treated head-on, some with a gentle irony they deserve. In Scraps, Orts, and Fragments , Rosenthal has provided opportunities for people to experience a life through his eyes, and as he states, experiences which are "interesting for me to have lived it all, perhaps amusing and interesting for readers."