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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780812973624
All in Good Time is a luminous memoir about growing up in the
shadow of the golden age of songwriting and Sinatra, from the
celebrated radio personality and novelist Jonathan Schwartz.
“Dancing in the Dark.” “That’s Entertainment.” “By Myself.” “You
and the Night and the Music.” They are part of the American
Songbook, and were all composed by Arthur Schwartz, the elusive
father at the center of his son’s beautifully written book.
Imagine a childhood in which Judy Garland sings you lullabies,
Jackie Robinson hits you fly balls, and yet you’re lonely enough to
sneak into the houses of Beverly Hills neighbors and hide behind
curtains to watch real families at dinner.
At the age of nine, Jonathan Schwartz began broadcasting his
father’s songs on a homemade radio station, and would eventually
perform those songs, and others, as a pianist-singer in the saloons
of London and Paris, meeting Frank Sinatra for the first time along
the way. (His portrait of Sinatra is as affectionate and accurate
as any written to date.)
Schwartz’s love for a married woman caught up in the fervor of
the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and his other relationships
with both lovers and wives, surround his eventually successful
career on New York radio.
The men and women who have roles to play include Richard Rodgers,
Nelson Riddle, Carly Simon, Jimmy Van Heusen, Bennett Cerf,
Elizabeth Taylor, and, of course, Sinatra himself.
Schwartz writes of the start of FM radio, the inception of the
LP, and the constantly changing flavors of popular music, while
revealing the darker corners of his own history.
Most of all, Jonathan Schwartz embraces the legacy his father
left him: a passion for music, honored with both pride and
sorrow.
From the Hardcover edition.
“Here is a prose blues full of many things: a much-loved
father; wives and children; lovers and other strangers; solitude
and fear; booze and remorse; along with the Boston Red Sox,
avocados, Beethoven string quartets, dark laughter, Sinatra, lost
highways, the Western desert, pianos in empty ballrooms, Paris,
friends, the endless search for home, and the spooky music of
time.”
—Pete Hamill
“It’s impossible to classify Jonathan Schwartz. In the way the
phrase ‘disc jockey’ doesn’t begin to describe his work on the
radio,
‘memoir’ doesn’t do justice to All in Good Time, which is a
haunting, beautifully written, and desperately funny account of a
supposedly privileged childhood and the tools a solitary child
creates to survive. His voice is as wry and hypnotic on the page as
it is on the air.”
—John Guare
“If you love America, you’ll love this memoir by a unique man. He
reminds us of our creative traditions: of baseball, of our golden
age of music, and of family. This is a very honest book.”
—Tony Bennett
“Jonathan Schwartz has taken the odd, less-than-ideal cards he
was dealt—a celebrity songwriter father who was never home, a
stepmother who didn’t want him around, and a yen for
self-destruction almost as strong as his passion for music—and
fashioned the compelling life he recounts here. How a melancholy
and eccentric little boy grew up into the much-loved cultural
presence he is today makes for a read that is by turns haunting and
hilarious. All in Good Time is written straight from Schwartz’s
large, eloquent (and unexpectedly modest) heart. ”
—Daphne Merkin
“‘Nothing ever goes away.’ Not for Jonathan Schwartz in his All
in Good Time. Everything is here: Sinatra, the Red Sox, women, and
music. And truth. I absolutely loved it.”
—Tim McCarver
From the Hardcover edition.
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