{"product_id":"9781611877663","title":"Milking the Moon","description":"FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003cp\u003eThis sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you've never heard of, is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century-enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price-and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition that has critics cheering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his 76 years, Eugene Walter ate of \"the ripened heart of life,\" to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. Walter savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the the l920s and '30s; stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York; was a ubiquitous presence in Paris's expatriate café society in the 1950s (where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception); and later, in 1960s Rome, participated in the golden age of Italian cinema. He was somehow everywhere, bringing with him a unique and contagious spirit, putting his inimitable stamp on the cultural life of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Katherine Clark...has edited Eugene Walter's oral history into a book as amazing as the man himself.\" JONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Milking the Moon has perfect pitch and flawlessly captures Eugene's pixilated wonderland of a life.... I love this book-and I couldn't put it down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePAT CONROY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surprising and serendipitous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anecdotes so frothy they ought to be served with a paper parasol over crushed ice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePEOPLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rare literary treat...the temptation is to wolf it down all at once, but it's much more satisfying to take your sweet time. The most unique oral history of the mid-twentieth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exceptionally fun read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Untreed Reads Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036605038832,"sku":"9781611877663","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611877663_p0.jpg?v=1769903471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611877663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}