Up With the Sun
A novel
Through the curious life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are thrown into stark relief in this “page-turning blast” (James Ellroy, author of Widespread Panic)
"Engrossing…[A] keen portrait of 1980s New York…a pensive, often gorgeous depiction of…gay life in Manhattan before Stonewall and life on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic." —The Washington Post
Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor in the fifties and sixties—until he wasn’t. A costar on Broadway, a member of Lucille Ball’s historic Desilu workshop, and finally a primetime TV actor, Dick had hustled to get his big break. But just as soon as his star began to rise, his…
THOMAS MALLON is the author of twelve novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, Watergate, Landfall, and Up With the Sun. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. In 2011 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. He has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Very Heart of It
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Aurora 7
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Up With the Sun
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Bandbox
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Mrs. Paine's Garage
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Landfall
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The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I
James Ellroy; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Finale
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Pal Joey
Libretto by John O'Hara; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart; Music by Richard Rodgers; Foreword by Thomas Mallon
Two Moons
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Dewey Defeats Truman
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Henry and Clara
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Watergate
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