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Author:

McCracken, Elizabeth.

Title:

Niagara Falls all over again / Elizabeth McCracken.

Publisher:

Dial Press,

Copyright Date:

©2001

Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Comedians--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
American fiction--21st century.
Jews.
American fiction.
Comedians.
Male friendship.
2000-2099
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Summary:

Mose Sharp is the only boy among six sisters in a close-knit Jewish family in Valley Junction, Iowa. Dad dreams of Mose taking over the family business, but Mose has other plans. He heads for the vaudeville circuit and teams up with Rocky Carter. Carter and Sharp is what is known as a knockabout act, with Mose (now called Mike) playing straight man. Ten successful years in vaudeville take the two to radio, Broadway, and finally, in 1939, to Hollywood, where they churn out a series of feature films. After that comes a TV show. Meanwhile, Rocky drinks and goes through numerous wives, and Mike marries nice, artistic Jessica. But Mike's relationship with the volatile Rocky is the most enduring one he knows, and when the act breaks up in 1953, neither one ever gets over it.

ISBN:

9780385318372
0385318375

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46538677

LCCN:

2001028314

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny) — Copies: 12

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington) — Copies: 15 — Kit notes: +CD

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche) — Copies: 4

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton) — Copies: 6 — Kit notes: +LP+CD

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs) — Copies: 10

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader) — Copies: 12 — Kit notes: +LP

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center) — Copies: 6

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City) — Copies: 5

MSPA553 -- Wesley Public Library (Wesley) — Copies: 18

ZAPB232 -- Curtis Memorial Library (Wheatland) — Copies: 21