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Nights at Rizzoli
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis. Gregory Peck, Mick Jagger, S. J. Perelman, I. M. Pei. Philip Johnson, Josephine Baker, John Lennon: They, and so many more who made New York City the center of the universe in the 1970s, all had one thing in common besides their adopted hometown - they shopped at a legendary palace of books, music, and art: Rizzoli Books at 712 Fifth Avenue. There, Kennedys and Rockefellers mingled with tourists and "regular" customers under the watchful gaze of sophisticated employees, themselves a multitalented, international collection of artists, scholars, and rogues.
Nights at Rizzoli is the memoir of Felice Picano, an aspiring but near-starving young writer who, in 1971, lucked into a part-time job at the stunningly elegant store via a friend. It metamorphosed into a life-changing experience, one that exposed him to some of the brightest lights in the world's cultural capital. At the store he became a key player on a stage that opened every night to a new drama that often featured romance, at times violence, and of course always the books and their readers. And when his shift was over, in this post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era, the handsome young bookstore manager stepped from one world into another, prowling the piers, bars, and very private clubs of a different New York City.
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- 04-08-2023
Right bookshop. Wrong book….
A self-aggrandising memoir which is very disappointing….it’s also not all that well read… too often words and babes are mispronounced. Ziegfeld is not ZiegFIELD… etc…. A minor book from a minor writer intent on telling us how clever, sexy, popular and talented he is. Or was. Or might have been. Apart from a lovely memory of Josephine Baker…. Yawn….
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