Music To Watch Girls By: Summer of 1967 - Couverture souple

Travis, Dart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908103140 ISBN 13 : 9781908103147

Editeur : Three Vee Limited, 2015

Synopsis

It’s the summer of love. 1967. Sergeant Pepper, the Stones bust, the death of Brian Epstein, war in Biafra. But this is all a long way from this summer in sunny sedate seaside Sandbourne. Steve is a student who gets a holiday job doing lights at the Maxie Vincent Show. This is not a seedy end-of-the-pier show, but a full scale, successful all-star production filling a 2000 seat concert hall twice nightly for months. Steve spends his evenings shining limelight on the stars and the mornings teaching English to German students.The other stagehands are mainly moonlighting bank clerks . Maxie Vincent, who had hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s is the star of the show, supported by bad-tempered comedian Stanley Micklwhite and Merseybeat group, The Sheriffs. Larry, the stage manager attempts to keep things running.Things are bubbling under the surface. Who is the mystery star dating one of the chorus line? Is Steve going to get together with Tina, who is dancing for the summer season before going on to study in New York?This is a comedy romance set squarely in 1967. Steve and Tina yearn to be part of the 1967 scene, as do some of The Sheriffs, but they’re firmly stuck working in Showbiz as it was before …

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dart Travis was born on the island of Jersey to a French-speaking mother and an English-speaking father, which he claims gave him an early interest in the intrinsic lack of genuine communication between cultures. His mother, Denise Leniece, was an accomplished painter, who was fond of the works of Alexandre Dumas, and Dart said she was only dissuaded from calling Dart’s three older siblings Athos, Porthos and Aramis by a delegation from both sides of the family (I don’t believe a word of it). Whatever, she insisted on christening her youngest son D’Artagnan. Her Jersey landscapes were too bizarre to sell well locally at the time, but are now collected.Dart and I first met teaching in the 1970s, and I take credit for persuading Dart that while one apostrophe in a name was mildly irritating, two plus an intercap was ridiculous. After a few days of trying to explain his chosen spelling (D’Art’) to classes, D’Art’ became Dart, and has remained so ever since. We kept vaguely in touch through the 70s, and I received an occasional rude postcard from the various places where Dart had ended up teaching: The British Council in Bulgaria; the Oxford and Cambridge Language Institute in Phuket and The Kool Skool (sic) in Amsterdam. I met him once, in 1983 when I was in Viareggio, Italy and he turned up with his stunning Italian wife and took me to dinner. He told me he had taught in England again the previous year for a few months, and had tried to look me up but had failed to locate me. I gave him my new address, but the postcards petered out in the mid-nineties. I was surprised to receive a barrage of e-mails with five novels enclosed. Dart found my current address on the internet, and he wondered if my small ELT imprint, Three Vee, was interested in publishing any or all of them. Dart’s present location makes communication difficult, and I agreed to use his novels as a trial on eBook publishing. I can confirm the accuracy of the setting of these picaresque novels. Dart has researched the music and events that form the background to the stories. I read them avidly, and it was with major relief that I realized that at least no character bore any resemblance to me. I know Dart had done lights on variety shows in his summer holidays for three years, lived through the May demos at university in 1968 and was a roadie for a rock band in 1969. Dart was always a weaver of tales and the ones here are somewhat different to those he told me nearer the time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Three Vee Limited
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908103140
• ISBN 13: 9781908103147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg