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The Ecstasy of Owen Muir

  • ISBN-13: 9781573921732
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Ring Lardner
  • Price: AUD $28.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/12/1997
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 272 pages Weight: 399g
  • Categories: Biography: general [BG]
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The classic novel "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir" is the story of what happens in 1940s America when an idealistically, fiercely honest young man, with no strong religious affiliation, marries a Roman Catholic woman. In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, attitudes toward sex, the Manhattan night-club set, judicial procedures, and other social phenomenon.
Ring Lardner Jr. (1915 - 2000), the third son of a famous American writer, attended Andover and Princeton and, in 1935 went to Hollywood to become a scriptwriter. In 1942 he co-wrote, with Michael Kanin, the comedy Woman of the Year, which won the Academy Award for best original screenplay. Because of his refusal to reveal beliefs and associations in 1947 before the House Committee on Un-American Activitites, Lardner was blacklisted in Hoillywood and three years later, sentenced to a year in prison. During that time he began research on his novel The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (1954), a searing indictment of American society during the McCarthy era. In addition to his other books All for Love and The Lardners: My Family Remembered, Lardner wrote pieces for The Nation, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Among his screenwriting credits following his blacklisting are The Cincinnati Kid and M*A*S*H, the latter of which won the 1970 Grand Prix in Cannes.
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