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Title: Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter, George Plimpton, Katherine Clark ISBN: 0609809652 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73
Rating: 4
Summary: Being there
Comment: "As-told-to" scribe Katherine Clark preserves Eugene Walter's voice in the memoir of this "character," as we call folks like him down South. Imagine Truman Capote without the best-selling books and TV fame. This is how Walter comes across in this memoir-autobiography-oral history transcript. He is a Southern Zelig, always showing up in pivotal moments in the development of literature and arts during the mid-20th century. Recalling his days in late 1940s New York, 1950s Paris and 1950s-60s Rome, he drops more names than the New York City phone book. From Greta Garbo to Judy Garland to Frederico Fellini, he hangs out with them all. The best-written portions of the book deal with his native Mobile, however. But who is he? He's the ultimate fly-on-the-wall. He writes some, acts some, translates movie scripts, throws cheap yet creative parties and plays the part of Southern eccentric in Europe. Who is he? He seems like an early 1970s Dick Cavett Show guest: an obscure bon vivant who shows up with George Plimpton to discuss a new Martha Graham dance or to cook a Southern meal. I ran across a mention of the book in an Oxford American magazine article and got a copy after reading a couple of very positive reviews by critics like Jonathan Yardly of the Washington Post. The book also received a 2001 National Book Critics Circle award nomination for biography. It's not for everyone. And I'm probably in that group. But it is intriguing and engaging and, at time, humorous. And at all times, like its subject, unique.
Rating: 5
Summary: Feel The Magic
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just like talking to Eugene.
Comment: 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.
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Title: The Untidy Pilgrim (A Deep South Book) by Eugene Walter, Katherine Clark ISBN: 0817311432 Publisher: Univ. of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Hints and Pinches by Eugene Walter, John T. Edge ISBN: 1892514982 Publisher: Hill Street Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile by Roy Hoffman ISBN: 0817310452 Publisher: Univ. of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers (A Deep South Book) by Jay Lamar, Jeanie Thompson ISBN: 0817311238 Publisher: Univ. of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: American Cooking: Southern Style by Eugene Walter ISBN: 0809401061 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: 1971 List Price(USD): $1.28 |
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