Oscar Levant The Memoirs of An Amnesiac Author:Oscar Levant from back — Pianist, composer, television personality, author, slashing court jester of New York and Hollywood, Oscar Levant is one of the few true originals left in our world. This long awaited book in his riotous, ruthlessly frank autobiography. — Here, described with racking wit and a touch of tragedy, is the story of his breakdowns, his hosp... more »italizations, his battles with drug addiction, his marital woes. Here are his friends and his enemies--Judy Garland, Jack Parr, Joseph P Kennedy, George Gershwin, et al--hilariously impaled by his mordant humor. Here, as everyone predicted, is one of the funniest, saddest, most unconventional and irresistible books of our times« less