Hothouse : the art of survival and the survival of art at America's most celebrated publishing house, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux / Boris Kachka.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux , 2013Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 433 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781451691894
- 070.5 KAC
- Z473.F37 K33 2013
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| Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | 070.5 KAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 032554 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
Introduction. A long and beautiful life -- An "our crowd" story -- Furor, stress -- The Golden Boy of publishing -- Protestant, Catholic, Jew -- Not a new look but a nice view -- The new sensibility -- King of the book fair -- Egg-bound -- This classy little yacht -- A fraught summer -- A little less hothouse literary -- The day of the jackal -- Profit and loss -- Chairman -- An embarrassment of riches -- Change.
An account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men - Roger Straus and Robert Giroux.
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