Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977)
Auteur de The Pajama Game
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Richard Pike Bissell
River in my blood (Signet book) 2 exemplaires
Julia Harrington Winnebago, Iowa 1913 1 exemplaire
Carmen 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Bissell, Richard Pike
- Date de naissance
- 1913-06-27
- Date de décès
- 1977-05-04
- Lieu de sépulture
- Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Dubuque, Iowa, USA (birth)
- Études
- Harvard University
- Professions
- businessman
novelist
playwright
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Critiques
Still circling Moose Jaw par Richard Bissell
Wally Dixon is a clever man, and his boredom with his hum-drum life leads him into a brush with the underworld. For Canadians, there is nothing really about Saskatchewan in this book....it is merely a handy punch line.
Sid, nuovo direttore di una fabbrica di pigiami e Babe capo della commissione. C'è tensione a causa di un aumento di paga che il proprietario non vuole dare.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It is the story of a towboat and its crew on a journey up the Mississippi during a flood, where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. I thought that Bissell did a good job of taking characters who are fairly stock: the Kid, the crusty Captain, the Duke - and making them into real characters rather than caricatures. Bissell sprinkles quotes from Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and others into the beginning of each chapter, a nice touch.
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alcottacre | 1 autre critique | Mar 20, 2010 |
alcottacre | 1 autre critique | Mar 20, 2010 | 
A combination of autobiography and steamboating history by the author of the novel which was turned into the very successful 1950's musical "The pajama game". Will appeal to anyone who is fascinated by the 1940's on and off the Mississippi. Born and brought up in Dubuque, Iowa, Mr Bissell, a Harvard graduate, worked alongside the talented pilots, idiosyncratic captains and earthy deckhands of the river boats and has a talent for describing their working and leisure life. He isn't happy about Mark Twain's padding of his books, though he isn't above a little of it himself!… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 380
- Popularité
- #63,551
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 1