An edition of I, Fatty: a novel (2004)

I, Fatty

a novel

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An edition of I, Fatty: a novel (2004)

I, Fatty

a novel

1st ed.
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"Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle found adulation first in vaudeville, and then in the new medium of the cinema. In his day, during the second decade of the 1900s, Fatty was more popular than Chaplin; he became the first screen actor to make a million dollars a year. But in 1921 he was accused of the rape and murder of actress Virginia Rappe, whom he encountered at a party in San Francisco and who died a few days later. Though he was eventually acquitted by a unanimous jury, the virulent speculation by the press ultimately destroyed Arbuckle's career. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, and demonized by conservative powers that hyped the case as emblematic of all the evils of show business, Fatty Arbuckle was the first modern celebrity whose presumed guilt - and alleged innocence - galvanized a nation." "In I, Fatty, Jerry Stahl, the author of Permanent Midnight, tells the story from Fatty's own perspective. This is a portrait of a comic genius whose rise and fall set the precedent for the scandals that still shake Hollywood today."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
280

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I, Fatty
February 1, 2006, Allison & Busby
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I, Fatty: A Novel
June 16, 2005, Bloomsbury USA
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I, Fatty: a novel
2004, Bloomsbury
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.T3125 I15 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
280 p. ;
Number of pages
280

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3681936M
Internet Archive
ifattynovel00stah
ISBN 10
1582342474
LCCN
2003028011
Library Thing
123616
Goodreads
914722

First Sentence

"DADDY REFERRED to my mother's reproductive organs as "her little flower.""

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