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An affectionate intimate biography by Madame Helena Rubinsteins personal assistant that captures Madames unbounded energy and spunk such as her buying carloads of African sculpture or kicking an inatteneive employee in the ankle to make him listen keeping her competitors at bay and dispensing homely advice particularly on beauty Rubinsteins propensity for crisis strife and inevitably farce make this irreverent but affectionate biography the purset diversion and just a fun read
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Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature as young Marcel unable to fall asleep waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night Prousts own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece and she has always held a special role in literary history both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writers career Without knowing much about her we think of her as the quintessential writers motherNow Evelyne BlochDanos touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real Jeanne Weil Proust Written with the imaginative force of a novel but firmly grounded in Jeanne and Marcel Prousts writings Madame Proust skillfully captures the life and times of Prousts mother from her GermanJewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocers son to her lifelong worries about her sons sexuality health problems and talent As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts daily life Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of findesiècle France including high society spa culture Jewish assimilation and the Dreyfus affair Throughout BlochDano offers sensitive readings of Prousts work drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother his life and his magnum opusThose coming to In Search of Lost Time for the first time will find in Madame Proust a delightful primer on Marcel Prousts life and times For those already steeped in the pleasures of Proust this gem of a biography will give them a fresh understanding of the rich fascinating background of the writer and his art
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Mint condition hardcover book in its also brand new condition decorative dustjacket This is a first condition first printing the true collectible edition Enjoy being the first to read this book
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an XRay machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based on discoveries made by Marie Curie The list of discoveries made by Marie Curie goes on and on not the least of which it was the discoveries of Marie Curie of nuclear fission that made the Atomic Bomb and other nuclear weapons possible Yet except for a few academics and watchers of The Discovery Channel the name of Marie Curie is largely unknown Ask a hundred men on the street if they know who Marie Curie is or was not more than one of them will have ever heard her If you ask the same group if they have ever heard of Albert Einstein all of them will have heard of him Yet Albert Einstein was only concerned with theoretical physics and his own theories None of his discoveries have yet been proven or confirmed None have been made into a machine like the common XRay Machine now seen in all major hospitals Marie Curie suffered from a form of discrimination experienced by almost all women of academic accomplishment Her discoveries were not taken seriously or were often credited to some man in her background Always it was assumed that the real work was done by some man and that the woman was just a wall flower
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This revealing and affectionate biography of film actress Grace Kelly paints a complex portrait of a woman for whom fame and glamour was countered by a tumultuous personal life
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This wonderful book Gary Cooper An Intimate Biography is a good read Gary Cooper was the most paradoxical figure in Hollywood He originiated the the strong silent typeyet he ran with the giddy internatonal set
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Gaynor Morgan daughter of former Manchester United star Willie Morgan has been a friend of David Beckhams for years earning the confidence of both the legendary soccer player and his wife Victoria In The Real David Beckham Morgan uses her privileged position to reveal how a boy from Essex became one of the most recognizable faces in the world the truth about his marriage and how he deals with his celebrity showing a side of David Beckham that only his closest friends have ever glimpsed
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Not only is Johnny Depp a huge star but his unconventional choice of movie roles has made him a fascinating and mysterious character endearing himself to audiences as diverse as the roles he plays With appearances in both childrens and adult films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Ed Wood Depp has a mass market crossgenerational appeal Tracing his career from his debut in Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984 through to his flamboyant turn as the voice of Victor Van Dort in Corpse Bride and the spectacular success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise this biography shows how Depp has successfully carved a niche for himself as a serious somewhat dark idiosyncratic performer consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike Other aspects of the charismatic actors life charted include include failed engagements to Jennifer Grey Winona Ryder and Kate Moss his currentnbsprelationship with French singeractress Vanessa Paradis with whom he has two children andnbsphis early wild parallel career as a rock musician
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Based on ten years of exclusive interviews Madonna An Intimate Biography reveals surprising new insights The complex nature of her relationship with her father How Warren Beatty broke her heart and why the two never wed Her romantic involvement with John Kennedy Jr The truth of her relationships with the fathers of her two children How motherhood changed her into a surprisingly different woman What the future holds for her And much more Psychological insights and astute observations Houston Chronicle
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Richard Harriss death in the winter of 2002 marked the passing of one of the great eccentric spirits of modern cinema Latterly renowned for his grandfatherly role as Dumbledore in Harry Potter this couldnt have been further from his heyday as an angry young man Born into the middleclass family of a failing millowner Harris planned an international rugby career and would have made it had he not been stricken with TB The compensatory creativity led him to a controversial theatrical career in London and into the heart of Hollywood But it also released the demons that constantly threatened to destroy him Befriending Richard Burton and Peter OToole the other legendary hellraisers of the sixties Harriss madness overshadowed everyone For twenty years he was a semiconstant drunk an obsessive experimenter with drugs and a passionate womaniser of Errol Flynn status yet amazingly he managed to star in hits like Mutiny on the Bounty Camelot and A Man Called Horse Along the way were scattered the inevitable casualties two marriages bankrupt businesses deserted friends nevertheless he managed to retain the affection of a mass audience This book started out in the eighties as an authorised biography but Callen has revisited his notes and added to his merviews for this unexpurgated version
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A portrait of a woman who lived a jealous rivalry with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis a sister who was a legend reveals patterns of sibling competition formed in childhood that influenced her entire life
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There has never been a better time for a book on Gram Parsons At the thirtyyear anniversary of his death his sound a mix of country and rock n roll is absolutely everywhere Popular musicians of today trace their inspiration to pick up a guitar to when they first heard his music His songs and his style have had a lasting effect on the music of our time Now together with Parsonss daughter Polly Jessica Hundley has created an intimate and extensive biography that brings together neverbeforeseen photos and illustrations unpublished letters and indepth interviews with some of the many artists whose work was shaped by Parsons including Keith Richards Emmylou Harris Wilco and Ryan Adams among many others Grievous Angel is the tribute that the legions of Parsons fans have been waiting fora book that brings to life the story of the Southern boy who revolutionized the way music sounds
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Edward Hoppers canvasses are filled with strippeddown spaces and unrelenting light evocative landscapes and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings What kind of man had this haunting vision and what kind of life engendered this art No one is better qualified to answer these questions than art historian Gail Levin author and curator of the major studies and exhibitions of Hoppers work In this intimate biography she reveals the true nature and personality of the man himselfand of the woman who shared his life the artist Josephine Nivison
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Portrays the complex life of the woman who became a veteran of tremendous success and great tragedy and relates the events of her final days
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An intimate of Gandhi describes how she grew from the shy daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru to political leader and reveals her thoughts feelings prejudices insiights flaws strengths loves and emotional entanglements
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