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 enlarge | Author: Gregory Gibson
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 99162
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0151012334
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2
EAN: 9780151012336
ASIN: 0151012334
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 Hubert's Freaks May 9, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was a sadly disappointing review of an era and avenue that I knew from my youth. By page 65 or so the Hubert story is over and we spend the rest of the book on a dysfunctional book dealer, a photographer and finally just 2 of the Hubert stars that were friends to the dealer and photographer.
Now we need a book on Hubert's Freaks.
 Hubert is only one part of the drama May 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like dust to a vacuum cleaner, and sucked in faster than I could think to this gripping story of Bob and other protagonists and characters of this marvelous book. Knowing some of them personally added another dimension for me, but the detail of Diane Arbus's intimate perception and insertion into the lives of her subjects brought a deeper dimension to portrait photography. And then of course is Bob, the art dealer in his trader world, with potential marks and hopes of patrons, where the real money is in the art world, to the gatekeepers of that realm posing or installed as museum curators. The book is a tantalizing thriller with insight.
Alen MacWeeney
Brilliant Book April 28, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Greg Gibson is a superb writer and has succeeded in combining the multifarious strands of a twisted plot to give us a riveting account of a fascinating episode in the life of an American icon. A must-read -- I finished in one flight from NY to SF. Buy it now and give copies to any friends who can read. They will kiss your feet.
Hubert's Dime Museum: a moment in [New York] time April 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Greg Gibson has captured a moment in the slippy-slidey story of Times Square by ressurecting the red-fronted phenomenon of Hubert's Dime Museum, which lived in the time after 42nd St was the center for legitimate theater but before it crashed and forced the City Fathers to scrub the fun out of it. He uses the story of a neurotic antiquarian book dealer who winkled out trunksful of leftover stuff and the Diane Arbus photographs that were in it, to weave a rich ohmigod, New York story that I had thought was no longer available in these low-cholesterol times. If New York in the middle of the 20th century meant anything to you, you need to read this. (Remember Prof. Heckler's flea circus?)
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