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Download or read book Lady of the Cards written by Rosita Fanto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady of the Cards documents the relationship of publisher and artist Rosita Fanto and Richard Ellmann, famed biographer of W. B.Yeats, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde. Fanto describes their meetings in Monaco, London, Oxford, and New York, the growth of their friendship, its flirtations with romance, and the developing tensions with Ellmann's family, who imagined that the artist and the writer had become lovers. It chronicles the Ellmann-Fanto publication of the Oscar Wilde Playing Cards, the course of Ellmann's debilitating illness Lou Gehrig's Disease his death and its legal and emotional consequences, focusing on his close relationship with "Rosita"(Fanto) at the end of his life. The memoir written in the form of a novel explores private archives and summons true identities. Intellectually and emotionally stimulating, Lady of the Cards is a sensitive and rich description of that delicious frisson of excitement which occurs between two people walking along the edge of an emotional cliff. Merlin Holland, author of The Wilde Album and Oscar Wilde, a Life in Letters Book Review. A platonic midlife romance strikes creative sparks in this winsome roman á clef. Fanto, a publisher and artist, knew Richard Ellmann, acclaimed biographer of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, for several years before his death in 1987; the two had collaborated on the creation of a line of arty Wilde-themed playing cards. In Fanto's fictionalized version of their relationship, they are also soul mates. Nearing 70, Dick Ellmann is a rumpled, warmhearted American scholar, devoted to caring for his invalid wife Mary. Rosita, radiating in all directions from her home in Monte Carlo, is a middle-aged jet-setter who can't eat dinner in Manhattan without Andy Warhol dropping by her table. But she's also smart, spontaneous, and a devotee of the l'acte gratuit, the hidden gesture of uncompensated kindness. (She meets Dick while helping a friend auction off some Joyce letters.) A professional connoisseur of fascinating lives, Dick savors Rosita's colorful stories of growing up in a wealthy Rumanian family, wartime exile in Brazil, a brother's assassination, and her adventurous encounters with the rich and famous from Salvador Dali to Orson Welles. In turn, Dick shares his subtle insights into the psyches and geniuses of writers and poets. Their affection grows but is stymied by Dick's dutifulness toward Mary. It sustains itself on sporadic intercontinental visits, longing letters and hesitant glances full of unspoken desire. A consummation of a kind occurs when Rosita proposes the playing-card project to complement Dick's soon-to-be-completed Wilde biography, but the aesthetic and intellectual glow of their collaboration darkens as Dick slowly succumbs to Lou Gehrig's disease. Fanto fills the narrative with risqué witticisms and piquant sketches of the glitterati, but her breezy, stylish prose still conveys the passion and pathos of an attraction that seems all the more intense for being so tightly constrained. A vibrant story of late-blooming love. Kirkus Discoveries
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Download or read book Lady of the Cards written by Rosita G. Fanto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady of the Cards documents the relationship of publisher and artist Rosita Fanto and Richard Ellmann, famed biographer of W. B.Yeats, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde. Fanto describes their meetings in Monaco, London, Oxford, and New York, the growth of their friendship, its flirtations with romance, and the developing tensions with Ellmann’s family, who imagined that the artist and the writer had become lovers. It chronicles the Ellmann-Fanto publication of the Oscar Wilde Playing Cards, the course of Ellmann’s debilitating illness—Lou Gehrig’s Disease—his death and its legal and emotional consequences, focusing on his close relationship with “Rosita”(Fanto) at the end of his life. The memoir written in the form of a novel explores private archives and summons true identities. Intellectually and emotionally stimulating, Lady of the Cards is a sensitive and rich description of that delicious frisson of excitement which occurs between two people walking along the edge of an emotional cliff. Merlin Holland, author of The Wilde Album and Oscar Wilde, a Life in Letters Book Review. A platonic midlife romance strikes creative sparks in this winsome roman á clef. Fanto, a publisher and artist, knew Richard Ellmann, acclaimed biographer of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, for several years before his death in 1987; the two had collaborated on the creation of a line of arty Wilde-themed playing cards. In Fanto’s fictionalized version of their relationship, they are also soul mates. Nearing 70, Dick Ellmann is a rumpled, warmhearted American scholar, devoted to caring for his invalid wife Mary. Rosita, radiating in all directions from her home in Monte Carlo, is a middle-aged jet-setter who can’t eat dinner in Manhattan without Andy Warhol dropping by her table. But she’s also smart, spontaneous, and a devotee of the l’acte gratuit, the hidden gesture of uncompensated kindness. (She meets Dick while helping a friend auction off some Joyce letters.) A professional connoisseur of fascinating lives, Dick savors Rosita’s colorful stories of growing up in a wealthy Rumanian family, wartime exile in Brazil, a brother’s assassination, and her adventurous encounters with the rich and famous—from Salvador Dali to Orson Welles. In turn, Dick shares his subtle insights into the psyches and geniuses of writers and poets. Their affection grows but is stymied by Dick’s dutifulness toward Mary. It sustains itself on sporadic intercontinental visits, longing letters and hesitant glances full of unspoken desire. A consummation of a kind occurs when Rosita proposes the playing-card project to complement Dick’s soon-to-be-completed Wilde biography, but the aesthetic and intellectual glow of their collaboration darkens as Dick slowly succumbs to Lou Gehrig’s disease. Fanto fills the narrative with risqué witticisms and piquant sketches of the glitterati, but her breezy, stylish prose still conveys the passion and pathos of an attraction that seems all the more intense for being so tightly constrained. A vibrant story of late-blooming love.—Kirkus Discoveries
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