Palm Trees on the Hudson
A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
Palm Trees on the Hudson is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber’s bestseller Taking Woodstock. Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan’s leading interior designers. Then Elliot’s career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob.
In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York’s rich and famous—politicians, financiers, and even Elliot’s icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including rented palms, Elliot’s event turned into financial disaster. Things couldn’t get any worse—or so it seemed until the Mob paid a visit.
By turns comic and tragic, Palm Trees on the Hudson is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tiber's rollicking prequel to Taking Woodstock has all of the prime ingredients of a madcap literary comic sendup with an enterprising, hapless narrator taking on chic Gotham city with mixed results. Tiber, a writer and producer of television and film, looks closely at his Jewish immigrant parents and his shattered Brooklyn childhood, in which his overbearing mother chipped away at his self-esteem and potential. After coming out as a gay man, he finds contentment and sexual fulfillment in Greenwich Village, with wild parties and a network of friends that propel him to elite status as one of Manhattan's top interior decorators. Tiber balances belly laughs and sincere emotion as he recounts how his infamous birthday party aboard a Hudson River Day Line steamboat went sour, a revealing talk with his beloved Garland during the mayhem, and the antigay sentiment in New York City that led to the 1969 riot at the Stonewall. Readers of his previous offering will enjoy these candid episodes of his remarkable backstory.
