Synopses & Reviews
Award-winning photographer Nancy Ellison offers an intimate glimpse of America's most fabled vacation island--Martha's Vineyard. Her romantic photographs capture landmarks such as the beautifully colored Gay Head Cliffs, the bustling farmers' market, weathered clapboard houses, haunting sunsets, and picturesque lighthouses. Ellison also explores unexpected views of the changing landscape that have often been overlooked. Accompanying the photographs is text by Cape Cod resident and renowned travel writer Paul Theroux. His evocative essay reflects on the changing moods of the Vineyard. Diverse Island personalities including year round residents such as the shipbuilders and lobster men as well as celebrities Art Buchwald, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Carly Simon, Bill Styron, Mike Wallace, and others come together in "Vineyard Days, Vineyard Nights. There has not been a Vineyard book in many years. And now Ellison's collection of photographs fills that gap and makes the perfect souvenir of the island. The book is not only a wonderful treasure for visitors but is an intimate portrait of the Vineyard that residents will recognize and embrace as their own.
About the Author
Photojournalist and painter Nancy Ellison is the author of many books, including Starlet, Barbie Live, and The American Ballet Theatre's The Ballet Book. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications, among them Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Her recent photographic exhibition, Barbie Live, was held at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York. She and her husband, Bill Rollnick, are summer residents of Martha's Vineyard. Paul Theroux is the internationally acclaimed author of such travel books as The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Sunrise with Seamonsters, The Kingdom by the Sea, and Dark Star Safari. His many novels include Hotel Honolulu and The Mosquito Coast.