Liberace
Subtitle: An American Boy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2000
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780226686677
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Contemporary popular music; 20th century; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Composers & Musicians - Pop; Social Science / Gay Studies; 1919-; 1919-1987; Biography; Liberace,; Pianists; United States
Description: "While wildly successful and good-natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a complicated man whose political, social, and religious conservatism existed side-by-side with a lifetime of secret homosexuality. Liberace: An American Boy relates this private man to the public persona and places this remarkable life in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of the United States in the twentieth century.".

"Pyron presents Liberace's life as a metaphor, for both good and ill, of modern America, with its endless shopping malls and insatiable hunger for celebrity. In this biography, Pyron complicates and celebrates our images of the man for whom the streets were paved with gold lame and whose excesses helped destroy him."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 7; label: One
title: Wisconsin Rhythm and Blues
pagenum: 17; label: Two
title: The Great Escape
pagenum: 42; label: Three
title: Sows' Ears/Silk Purses
pagenum: 69; label: Four
title: Chico and Chopin
pagenum: 97; label: Five
title: The Successful Unknown
pagenum: 130; label: Six
title: Lucky Channel 13
pagenum: 158; label: Seven
title: Music for a Mama's Boy
pagenum: 180; label: Eight
title: The Shoals of Fame
pagenum: 217; label: Nine
title: You Can Be Sure If It's Westinghouse
pagenum: 251; label: Ten
title: Getting Back
pagenum: 289; label: Eleven
title: Trompe L'oeil
pagenum: 318; label: Twelve
title: An Image in the Water
pagenum: 352; label: Thirteen
title: The Garden of Earthly Pleasures
pagenum: 383; label: Fourteen
title: Peter Pan
pagenum: 411; label: Fifteen
title: Et Lux Perpetua
pagenum: 449; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 475; title: Notes
pagenum: 493; title: Index
pagenum: 554; title: Photo Section
pagenum: 580