Louise Brooks
A Biography (livre en anglais)
de Barry Paris
Moyenne des votes :
0 | vote | = On peut s'en passer |
0 | vote | = Bon livre |
0 | vote | = Excellent livre |
1 | vote | = Unique / une référence |
Votre vote : -
Description de l'ouvrage :
The long-awaited republication of this captivating account of the star's life.
Louise Brooks left Wichita, Kansas, for New York City at age fifteen and lived the kind of life of which legends are made. From her beginnings as a dancer to her years in Hollywood, Berlin, and beyond, she was hailed and reviled as a new type of woman: independent, intellectually daring, and sexually free. In this widely acclaimed, first and only comprehensive biography, Barry Paris traces Brooks's trajectory from her childhood through her fall into obscurity and subsequent "resurrection" as a brilliant writer and enduring film icon.
"Star biographies don't get any better than Barry Paris's Louise Brooks." USA Today
"This account has the aphrodisiac gloss of Brooks herself: you meet the stare of a modern icon, a picture that taunts your inability to touch the real thing. A necessary and stimulating book, it is itself an important part of Brooks's life after death." The New Republic
"Absorbing, wonderfully well researched and, all in all, an exemplar of its kind." London Spectator
"Louise Brooks is not simply a summary of her movie plots and love affairs but a serious work of film and social history." New York Magazine
Barry Paris is an award-winning biographer, film and music critic, and contributor to the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in Pittsburgh.
Translation Inquiries: Alfred A. Knopf
Revue de Presse :
A sensational work—it’s a wow! -- Liz Smith, New York Daily News Great, provocative reading. -- Leonard Maltin, ABC-TV Entertainment Tonight The much-talked-about Louise Brooks is a synthesis of exhaustive research, written with imaginative sympathy. -- Premiere magazine
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur University of Minnesota Press
Voir la filmographie complète de Louise Brooks sur le site IMDB ...
> Livres ayant un titre identique ou proche :
> Du même auteur :
> Sur un thème proche :
Nota : Un livre sur fond légèrement grisé est un livre qui n'est plus actuellement édité ou qui peut être difficile à trouver en librairie. Le prix mentionné est celui de l'ouvrage à sa sortie, le prix sur le marché de l'occasion peut être très différent.
Un livre sur fond de couleur beige est un livre édité dans une autre langue que le français.