Fosse, Sam Wasson
Fosse, Sam Wasson
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Fosse

Author: Sam Wasson

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 21 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2013

Synopsis

We see Bob Fosses legacy everywherefrom Broadway to Billy Jean to Beyoncs moves in the Single Ladies video. Yet in spite of Fosses deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosses numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art and earn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosses prodigious professional life but his intense relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire, and Neil Simon to Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. Through extensive interviews with collaborators and lovers and unprecedented access to Fosses archives, Wasson also reveals the deep wounds that propelled his subjects excessive appetitesfor spotlights, women, and life itself. In Fosse, Wassons stylish, effervescent prose proves the ideal vehicle for reanimating Bob Fosse as he truly wasafter hours, close up, and in vibrant color.

About Sam Wasson

Sam Wasson is the author of five books including the bestselling Fosse and Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn

After reviewing the entertaining FX miniseries Fosse/Verdon a month ago, I became very curious about the book the show was based on: Sam Wasson’s biography of the legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse. I’m glad I read it, even though carrying the thick brick of a book around practically dis......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia

One of the biggest problems with a book about a dancer/choreographer is that no matter how colourful the descriptions (and Wasson REALLY likes description…) you can’t see the performances. I found myself going over and over again to YouTube to look for clips so that I could actually see what was bei......more

Goodreads review by Skip

In some ways I think I know the author of "Fosse," Sam Wasson, about as well as he wants us to know the mercurial, obsessed genius/fraud/friend/lover/motherfucker that apparently was Bob Fosse. As much as Fosse possessed others in his ceaseless search for art through love-or was it love through art?......more

Goodreads review by V.

"How much time do I have?" asks Bob Fosse at the start of Sam Wasson's biography of the director and choreographer. Sixty years, as it turns out, as Wasson's chapter headings turn into a relentless countdown of the years--and later, minutes--left before his last, fatal heart attack. It's an effectiv......more

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