Niagara Falls All over Again
Elizabeth McCracken
308 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099429055
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2003
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Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, Mose Sharp couldn’t leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit. But he knew one thing from the start: ‘I needed a partner’. Then, an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life – and a thirty-year partnership was born. But as the comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, a funny thing happened amid the laughter: it was Mose who had all the best lines offstage. And soon, cracks were appearing in their complex relationship-until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel. Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss.