![]() ![]() ![]() Nabokov it isn't, but certainly better than the 1982 film with Dudley Moore & Mary Tyler Moore. There was, however, a certain charm to Six Weeks (1976), told by a married aspirant for a Democratic senatorial nomination who becomes infatuated with a cold-cream heiress, largely at the behest of her 11-year-old, would-be nymphet daughter who, beset by cancer, has less than two months to live. Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart, 1969, Coward,McCann & Geoghegan, Coward McCann and Geoghegan edition, Hardcover. With The Methuselah Enzyme, Stewart showed wit, but it was clear that it wasn't Henry James. By the 1960s, he realised he wasn't going to succeed as a pianist & with marriage to a literary agent, Joan Richardson, in 1967, he began to write, & found immediate success with The Mephisto Waltz. Born in Anderson, IN, he was the son of a banker &, after the Lawrenceville school, near Princeton, NJ, he studied history at Princeton University & later piano at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. Year in, year out, the 600-page mark didn't daunt him, a far cry as this was from early hopes as life as a concert pianist, something which had inspired his 1st novel The Mephisto Waltz (1968) which also began his lucrative connection with the film industry. ![]() Stewart came to be best known for his intercontinental sagas. ![]() American popular novelist, several of whose books were filmed. ![]()
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