Send me updates about Slate special offers. The fictional veneer, in these cases, also allows the filmmakers to accuse some of the guilty parties who made their adolescences “hell on Earth.” That was the phrase Spielberg used to describe the year he spent at Saratoga High School in Northern California, when he suffered his most acute episodes of antisemitic bullying, painfully reenacted in the screenplay Spielberg wrote with frequent collaborator Tony Kushner. When I was in the early stages of researching my unauthorized Steven Spielberg: A Biography (published in 1997 and since updated twice) and approached his office to request an interview, he declined through a spokesman, who said, “He’d be happy if there are no books” about him, but “He’s not going to stop you from writing a book.” Like The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, a Spielberg role model he directed in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Fabelmans is a lightly fictionalized autobiography, a version of its author’s early life with the names “changed to protect the innocent,” as Dragnet used to put it. All pages present and intact.One of the principal jobs of a biographer is to distinguish the facts from the myths, rather than simply printing the legend, to borrow a phrase from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, another formative film repeatedly quoted in The Fabelmans. Internally, a scattered light foxing to the front pastedown, the first free endpaper and title page. Silver lettering on front board and spine still quite bright. Small chip to the rear board top edge at the spine. Two tiny dings to the front board mid point. Black cloth hardcover is clean and bright. Scattered light foxing to the fore edges. Scattered very light foxing to the DJ back cover and also to the underside of the dust jacket visible if the jacket is taken off. Evidence of water damage to the DJ front and back covers with soiling, staining and some paper loss. Light chipping to the head and heel of the spine.
The DJ is lightly soiled and rubbed with heavy wear and some small tears to edges as well as some creasing. An earnest, controversial, and explicit sexual manual, intended to instruct with "frankness, candor, humor - and love." Explanatory text by Dr.
First published in 1974 by Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal, Germany. Contains sixty nine full page black and white reproduction photographs by Will McBride. Meant as a teaching tool for children to learn about sex. Martin 's Press Date Published: 1975 Description: New York. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt Photographs Will McBride Edition: First English Language Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: St. Show Me! APicture Book of Sex for Children and Parents Explanatory text by Dr.
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