The Cold Last Swim
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It's December 1954. During a live television performance of the General Electric Theater, a young James Dean brandishes a pistol at the fellow actor, and weekly show-host, Ronald Reagan. Dean goes off script, and what happens next kicks off a noirish alternate history, a "sliding doors" narrative that takes real events in a different direction. The Cold Last Swim features two cultural icons: one who would be dead within a year, immortalized as a symbol of cool rebellion; the other, in a little over a quarter-century, would become the leader of the free world, the standard-bearer of traditional and even fundamentalist values. Each reflects fifties America: Reagan is firmly established among the open freeways and unblemished skies of sunny Los Angeles; Jimmy, emerging from the black-and-white shadows of a rainy New York street. Told largely from Jimmy's viewpoint, but incorporating a diverse cast of period characters, The Cold Last Swim is classical Greek drama: Reagan's Apollo, god of light, warmth, and temperance; Jimmy's Bacchus, license, alienation, and impulse. In this era between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties, we recognize the seeds are being sown for the cultural gulf that divides America today.
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Grouping Title | cold last swim |
Grouping Author | junior burke |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-12-09 14:15:12PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-20 01:59:55AM |
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It's December 1954. During a live television performance of the General Electric Theater, a young James Dean brandishes a pistol at the fellow actor, and weekly show-host, Ronald Reagan. Dean goes off script, and what happens next kicks off a noirish alternate history, a "sliding doors" narrative that takes real events in a different direction. The Cold Last Swim features two cultural icons: one who would be dead within a year, immortalized as a symbol of cool rebellion; the other, in a little over a quarter-century, would become the leader of the free world, the standard-bearer of traditional and even fundamentalist values. Each reflects fifties America: Reagan is firmly established among the open freeways and unblemished skies of sunny Los Angeles; Jimmy, emerging from the black-and-white shadows of a rainy New York street. Told largely from Jimmy's viewpoint, but incorporating a diverse cast of period characters, The Cold Last Swim is classical Greek drama: Reagan's Apollo, god of light, warmth, and temperance; Jimmy's Bacchus, license, alienation, and impulse. In this era between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties, we recognize the seeds are being sown for the cultural gulf that divides America today.
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