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Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977)

Autor(a) de The Pajama Game [1957 film]

19+ Works 380 Membros 11 Reviews

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Bissell, Richard Pike
Data de nascimento
1913-06-27
Data de falecimento
1977-05-04
Local de enterro
Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA (birth)
Local de nascimento
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Local de falecimento
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Locais de residência
Dubuque, Iowa, USA (birth)
Educação
Harvard University
Ocupação
businessman
novelist
playwright

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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.
 
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DinadansFriend | Sep 18, 2019 |
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.
 
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BiblioLorenzoLodi | 1 outra resenha | Feb 26, 2014 |
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.
2 vote
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alcottacre | 1 outra resenha | 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!… (mais)
 
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gibbon | May 18, 2009 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
19
Also by
3
Membros
380
Popularidade
#63,551
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Resenhas
11
ISBNs
19
Idiomas
1

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