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Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

By: Mimi Pockross

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Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

By: Mimi Pockross

Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538131692

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9781538131695

The Takeover

An Unexpected Caregiver's Story

By: Mimi Pockross

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The Takeover

An Unexpected Caregiver's Story

By: Mimi Pockross

So how does a daughter cope with moving her elderly parents from Chicago to Denver and becoming their primary caregiver? This is a story about learning on the job to deal with constant medical and emotional crises, about deciphering the eldercare lingo, about trying to figure out how to maintain some sort of quality of life, about juggling the financial and legal problems associated with the aging process, and about the surprising joys of making life meaningful enough that when one looks back at this time, it all seems worthwhile.

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225

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499009798

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Shopping for a Living

A Memoir on Merging Marriage, Motherhood, and Merchandising

By: Mimi Pockross

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Shopping for a Living

A Memoir on Merging Marriage, Motherhood, and Merchandising

By: Mimi Pockross

Mimi Pockross, wife and mother of two young boys, is newly entrenched in her adopted city of Denver. Feeling very isolated with no real friends and few contacts, she decides to open a southwestern arts and crafts gallery. At the same time that she is pursuing her quest to turn her gallery into gold, she is paying back a hefty loan, combing Santa Fe, New Mexico and its environs for her inventory. In addition to facing the many struggles of a new business owner, she is also overseeing her childrens school and home life, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and tending to her busy husband. Its the 1980s, a time of economic volatility, changing roles for women, and the usual daunting obstacles associated with raising a family. Shopping for a Living is the unique tale of a woman who wants it all and does her best to achieve that goal.

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iUniverse

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1440166781

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Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

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The Takeover

An Unexpected Caregiver's Story

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An Unexpected Caregiver's Story

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Shopping for a Living

A Memoir on Merging Marriage, Motherhood, and Merchandising

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A Memoir on Merging Marriage, Motherhood, and Merchandising

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Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

The Takeover

The Takeover

Shopping for a Living

Shopping for a Living

Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

The Takeover

The Takeover

Shopping for a Living

Shopping for a Living

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