Author: Evelyn Scott
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: escapade
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0813916410
ISBN-13: 9780813916415

In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn- later to be known as Evelyn Scott- turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Evelyn Scott with the raw material for a singular work of fictionalized autobiography. That work, published in 1923 amid e

Author: Patrick Dennis
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: escapade, irreverent, mame, auntie
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0767908198
ISBN-13: 9780767908191

Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world’s most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as

Author: Cyrus D., Jr. Hogue
Publisher: Vantage Pr
Keywords: grasse, caper, escapade, novel
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0533154170
ISBN-13: 9780533154173

The dark days of World War II have dawned on France. The German Army has occupied the countryside and installed their Vichy puppets. As fear and dread replace blind hope and naive optimism for the Jewish community, the Rosen family prepares their flight to safety beyond the Germans’ growing reach, in Cyrus D. Hogue, Jr.’s new novel, Le Grasse Escapade. With the help of a sympathetic fishing boat captain, they sail for Algiers and the relative safety of the Free French. But they leave behind the uncertain fates of family, friends, and neighbors, not to mention se