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Search - Newsweek Condensed Books: One L, Orient Express, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, The Street Where I Live, A Hostage to Fortune

Newsweek Condensed Books One L Orient Express The Man Who Skied Down Everest The Street Where I Live A Hostage to Fortune
Author: Scott Turow, E. H. Cookridge, Yuichiro Miura, Eric Perlman, Alan Jay Lerner, Ernest K. Gann

One L: The Inside Account of Life in the First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow — In a lucid, beautifully written account with the wallop of a suspense novel, he recreates his own experience and that of his classmates in their crucial first year at the biggest law school of them all, Harvard, where "One L" is the traditional name for the... more » first-year student. During this formative year, many law students come to feel that they are strangely changed. This personal metamorphosis is at the heart of One L, and the award-winning author's account of it is spellbinding.

Orient Express: The Life and Times of the World's Most Famous Train by E. H. Cookridge

Himself an Orient Express passenger for almost half a century, has assembled a vast cast of characters: passengers whose stories made the Orient Express the most famous train in history. Its very name conjures up images of pipe-smoking secret agents, socialites in minks and veiled hats, disguised revolutionaries lurking in its ornate corridors. Its lavish surroundings become the perfect setting for intrigue and adventure. Here are eighty years of high drama: the story of the infamous and the famous who traveled the Orient Express.

The Man Who Skied Down Everest by Yuichiro Miura with Eric Perlman

The "samurai of the snows" risked everything for one consummate act of glory and won. In this enthralling account of his adventure in skiing down the world's highest mountain, he takes us from the moment when the incredible idea first came to him, through the painstaking preparations, the journey through the treachery of sudden crevasse and random avalanche, to that culminating moment, 26,000 feet above sea level, when he stood alone against the mountain. This is a book that dusts off the age-old ideals of honor and glory and embodies the unparalleled vitality of a life lived close to the edge.

The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner

He has written a highly personal biography of three great shows: My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot. The creation of theater is the matrix of this wonderful book: warm, witty, often hilarious, and poignant in its affection for a glorious era of American theater. Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Carson, Vincente Minnelli, and others are seen intimately on and off stage. The author himself, try as he will to keep himself out of his pages, emerges not only as a great talent but as a man of laughter and love.

A Hostage to Fortune by Ernest K. Gann

His autobiography recounts his incredibly full and fascinating life, a life with more than enough adventure; risks taken and gambles won, exotic journeys, ironic tricks of fate, the struggle of man and man's machines against nature; to match anything in this master storyteller's marvelous and best-selling novels. Pilot, sailor, filmmaker, and author of more than a score of famous and successful books, including The High and the Mighty and Fate Is the Hunter, Gann here confronts both his public and private past with honestly and compelling narrative force.

Volume 7 Number 2

ISBN-13: 9780882251790
ISBN-10: 0882251791
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 576
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Publisher: Newsweek, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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