AMERICA AMERICA.
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0000CLUIW |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Stavros realizes that such a marriage would mean the end of his American dream and adamantly refuses, abruptly leaving the angry cousin.. Nevertheless, he attempts to salvage the situation by proposing that Stavros marry a wealthy merchant's (Paul Mann) young daughter (Linda Marsh). The older man is deeply disappointed at this turn of events since he was counting on the infusion of funds to rescue his failing enterprise. Due to his kind nature and naivete, he allows himself to be deprived of all his money and arrives at the cousin's home penniless. His odyssey begins with a long voyage on a donkey and on foot through the impoverished towns and villages on the way to Constantinople. The book begins in the late 1890s, as young Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Giallelis), living in an impoverished village in Turkish Anatolia witnesses brutal oppression by the Turkish authorities of the Greek and Armenian minorities. He is entrusted by his father with the family's financial resources in a mission of hope to the Turkish capital Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930, where he would work in the carpet business of his father's cousin (Harry Davis), although his own dream is to reach the faraway land of opportunity, America
A Customer said Dreams, dreams, dreams.. "America, America" is a rael E. Kazan's masterpiece. It's a story about hope and obsessive dreams, an evocation of the immigration experience in the late 19 th century. "America, America" is a real history of the Kazan's family life. And as he said, of his love and passion to it. For Starvos, a young Greek, America was a land of dreams. Land of great freedom and opportunities. Having suffered persecution in Turkey, he wanted to find his own Eldorado, a place of happiness. The way to it was very long and difficult, not without severe obs. Epic Vision Annie Lanzillotto author of L is for Lion I love this story. This book shows how Elia Kazan's vision of every moment --he breathed every moment of this epic immigration journey into life, into words, into film.It's all here. I saw the film first, several times, and now, years later read the book --written in the present tense,moment to momenta perfect unity of characters to create this journey.The phenomenal film is extremely close in detail to the book, remarkably so,showing the specificity of Kazan's vision.I am a fan for lifeand greatful I got to speak with him while we both. "An Immigrant's Tale" according to Loves the View. This work is part novel and part script. In it, director and writer Elia Kazan describes the difficulties for minorities living in Turkey at the turn of the century and the greater difficulty of leaving for the new world.Stravos sees and experiences discrimination, poverty, duplicity and thuggery. He makes up his mind to go to America and despite many set backs, pursues the dream.There is a 1950's simplicity in this story. The narrator is uncritical of the protagonist who perseveres with luck and pluck. There is no follow up, so you can