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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLE AWARD This sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you've never heard of, is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century-enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price-and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition that has critics cheering. In his 76 years, Eugene Walter ate of "the ripened heart of life," to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. Walter savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the the l920s and '30s; stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York; was a ubiquitous presence in Paris's expatriate café society in the 1950s (where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception); and later, in 1960s Rome, participated in the golden age of Italian cinema. He was somehow everywhere, bringing with him a unique and contagious spirit, putting his inimitable stamp on the cultural life of the twentieth century. "Katherine Clark...has edited Eugene Walter's oral history into a book as amazing as the man himself." JONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Milking the Moon has perfect pitch and flawlessly captures Eugene's pixilated wonderland of a life.... I love this book-and I couldn't put it down." PAT CONROY "Surprising and serendipitous." NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Anecdotes so frothy they ought to be served with a paper parasol over crushed ice." PEOPLE "A rare literary treat...the temptation is to wolf it down all at once, but it's much more satisfying to take your sweet time. The most unique oral history of the mid-twentieth century." TIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS) "An exceptionally fun read." ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This PlanetFrom Untreed Reads Publishing - Amazon Sales Rank: #2901837 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.06" w x 5.98" l, 1.75 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 428 pages
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This PlanetFrom Untreed Reads Publishing Amazon.com Review When Katherine Clark began interviewing Eugene Walter (1921-98) in 1991 for an oral biography of this Mobile, Alabama, legend's picaresque life, friends asked her, "Do you think he will tell you the truth?" "I certainly hope not!" she replied. Clark, herself a Southerner, understood that the charm of Walter's conversation came from his brilliantly polished stories, in which "at a certain point the actual gives way to the apocryphal." So readers shouldn't ask if Tallulah Bankhead really gave Walter three pubic hairs or if Anna Magnani actually asked the mayor of Rome to help find Walter's lost cat: that's not the point. These anecdotes express Walter's appreciation of people he likes, and although the narrative is stuffed with famous names from Truman Capote to Leontyne Price, the exuberant protagonist finds less celebrated folks just as fascinating. His loving evocation of Mobile in the 1920s, when the front porch was the center of all social life, is just as detailed as his portraits of sojourns in more glamorous enclaves: Greenwich Village after World War II ("where I could sit in the evenings and hear Jane and Paul Bowles quarreling in their nearby apartment"); Paris in the early 1950s (his short story "Troubador" appeared in the first issue of Paris Review); and Rome during its La Dolce Vita years. Walter refused Fellini's plea that he perform with his marionettes in that particular movie, but he played an American journalist in 8 1/2 and "must have been in over a hundred of those crazy Italian films" before returning to Mobile in 1979. ("Sooner or later all Southerners come home, not to die, but to eat gumbo.") Clark, who captured an Alabama midwife's wisdom in Motherwit, gets out of her subject's way and lets his words create an enchanting world in this marvelously entertaining reminiscence. --Wendy Smith
From Publishers Weekly "I'm just a Southern boy let loose in the big world," declares Walter in his delightful oral autobiography, the culmination of months of talks with literature professor Clark (Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story). Born in 1921 in Mobile, Ala., (which is, he notes, "a separate kingdom. We are not North America; we are North Haiti"), Walter spent most of his adulthood in New York, Paris and Rome, where he published a prize-winning novel (The Untidy Pilgrim, 1954), translated hundreds of screenplays, helped found the Paris Review, appeared in Fellini films and figured centrally in the social life of the literati, entertaining everyone from T.S. Eliot to Muriel Spark to Dylan Thomas at his lavish parties. Legendary both in his hometown and among the European jet set of the '50s and '60s, Walter displays an abiding fascination with people of all kinds. Astute and opinionated, he comments more on the personalities than the output of his literary associates. Unconcerned with material success or critical renown, Walter, who died in 1998, was in perennial pursuit of lively and provocative encounters with interesting people. In this respect, Clark observes, he's "so classically Southern as to be archetypal"; indeed, Walter, who traveled with a shoebox filled with Alabama red clay dirt, filters all his experiences through an explicitly Southern perspective that is alternately provincial and insightful. After her own encounters with him, Clark was convinced that his eccentric, ebullient voice was worth preserving, and indeed he comes through as one of the most fascinating literary figures most of us have never heard of. Photos not seen by PW. (Aug.)Forecast: Deliciously gossipy, this will make great late summer reading for the literate set and should sell briskly if it gets review attention.
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From Library Journal Walter was a poet, storyteller, novelist, actor, and raconteur in the best Southern tradition. Born in Mobile, AL, he lived in New York's Greenwich Village in the Forties, Paris in the Fifties, and Rome in the Sixties. In his time, Walter entertained luminaries including Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Judy Garland and appeared in over 60 films, most notably Fellini's 8 1/2. He also won the Lippincott Prize for his novel The Untidy Pilgrim. Clark (Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story) was introduced to Walter upon his return to Mobile in the 1980s, and the two became friends. Clark tape-recorded Walter's stories in the hopes that they would not be lost. Alas, her introduction and the cast of characters are the book's weakest sections; Walter told his stories with such style that they needed no further explanation. Recommended for academic libraries with large collections of Southern and 20th-century literature and for public libraries with large Southern collections. Pam Kingsbury, Alabama Humanities Fdn., Florence Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Feel The Magic By John Hastings I am an unashamed perfervid Biblioholic. I own thousands of books. Literary biography is my preferred logocentric drug of choice. If I could keep just one book from my library it would undoubtedly be Milking the Moon.Good books find me (it's a healthy relationship with the muse) and this one scooted into my hungry paws with a supernatural abandon that surprised even me.Eugene Walter is a composite of a million different felicities. Though I didn't know him in the flesh he is now my friend for life. I've tramped around with him from the mossy environs of Mobile, where everybody is crazy, to Patchen Place to the Cafe de Tournon and tea with Alice Babette Toklas who waxed her moustache and pined for her absent, commaless companion.The fabulous stories never cease; they knead into, flow into,dance into each other like the creation of the universe. Eugene and his life and his marvelous stories are the music of the spheres. If as Mr. Pater says--All art aspires to the condition of music--stop for a moment and let Eugene play for you.Dance with Tallu and Gore and the monkey and the Caribou and all the rest of the protean crazies Eugene encountered and annointed with his presence.Take out a bank loan and buy everyone you know a copy of Milking the Moon.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Just like talking to Eugene. By thefallingman I suppose I was one of the fortunate few who had a chance to meet Eugene before he died. The people I was working for back in the mid-nineties were friends of his and, therefore, I had the chance to be around him.Eugene was the consummate storyteller. One of those who never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn. His idea was to make you enjoy where you were and who you were. To inject a little wonderousness into the world. Although based in truth, nothing he told was strictly true.This book captures him almost perfectly. Although it cannot convey his gestures and antics and voice, it does convey his mind and gift for gab. Pour yourself a glass of port and read with the voice of an eccentric Southern uncle in your head and Eugene starts to come out. It's not quite the same as being there, but this book is as close as any of us will ever be again.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Another Walk with Eugene By Mary Lee McClure For years I bored my friends with my tales of Eugene Walter until one day I was confronted by a very special friend with a photo of herself and Eugene in Rome. Her husband was a noted anthropologist with the Smithsonian and someone had told them that here was a "must meet" person! So there they were grinning like small children at a birthday party.Eugene and I were friends from adolescence and I followed his goings and comings with great interest all the way, through his work with the CCC in the early Roosevelt years and on until his death. I am finding this book a complete delight, almost as wonderful as being with the maestro and listening to his tales all over again.He had a knack of gathering to himself the most fascinating people wherever he found himself and, as he says, there's nothing like a party, so wherever he might be, there you could be sure a party was either in progress or a-planning. The zany hilarity in heaven upon his arrival a couple of years ago must still be echoing.If you wish to walk a while in the company of one of the most entertaining, brilliant and hilariously funny bon vivants, raconteurs, chefs, artists, actors, scene designers, etc., etc., etc. read this book. A tale of a Southern gentle man of great talent, almost too much so for his own good!
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