Frank sinatra has a cold taschen
Gay Talese's crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful reality with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author's archives and photographs from Phil Stern-the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over an extraordinary four decade period
“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without coat, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” — Gay Talese
In the winter of , writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the singer and his guarded entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not willing to be interviewed.
Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did g
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“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without color, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” — Gay Talese
In the winter of , writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he initiate the singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not willing to be interviewed.
Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese’s tenacity paid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down in history as a tour de force of literary nonfiction and the advent of the New Journalism.
In this illustrated edition
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Signed)
Synopsis
In this Collector&#x;s Edition, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold is published in traditional letterpress, with an introduction by Gay Talese and facsimile reproductions of manuscript pages, correspondence, and original storyboard, revealing the making of this New Journalism marvel. To complete the Sinatra picture, the text and archival material is interwoven with photographs of Sinatra from the legendary lens of Phil Stern, the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades, as well as from top photojournalists of the &#x;60s including John Bryson, John Dominis, and Terry O&#x;Neill. Reproduced in rich duotone, the photographs compliment Talese&#x;s character examine by documenting the many complex facets of Sinatra: the voice, the showman, the doting father, the Hollywood magnet, and the gentleman with, in his own words, an over-acute capacity for sadness as good as elation.
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GAY TALESE
Gay Tales was born on 7 February in Ocean City, New Jersey to Italian immigrants. He attended the University of Alabama and was hired as a mimic boy at the New York Times after graduation. After completing his military service, he returned to The Adj York Times in and worked there as a reporter until Since then he has written for The Recent Yorker, Esquire and other national publications. His best-known portraits of Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra possess all appeared in Esquire.
Gay Talese is known for his thorough research and for his formally elegant style. He is considered a co-founder of literary journalism and also of the "new journalism" of the s. He himself has always politely resisted this label, insisting that his "stories with adj names" do not represent a reformist crusade, but rather his own personal response to the world as an Italian-American "outsider". (Source: Portrait of an (Nonfiction) Artist by Barbara Lounsberry)
Gay Talese is also a best-selling author who has written fourteen books. Today, Talese lectures ea