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Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a
decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex
symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood
as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film
industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe
DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells
of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with
the Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as "the
kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty
bottle of sleeping pills in her hand." The Marilyn in these pages
is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was
far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on
screen. Lavishly illustrated with photos of Marilyn, this special
book celebrates the life and career of an American icon -from the
unique perspective of the icon herself."
Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first
published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of
Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New
York during the Second World War and after. "His manners are not
always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting
autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being
intensely interesting."-Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time's
list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the
un-put-downable testament of the era's great multimedia
entertainer."
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
The columns in 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago are scruffy time
capsules of an earlier Chicago, an era that is long gone but still
recognizable to readers' imaginations. Michigan Avenue, Lake
Michigan, street names such as Dearborn and Adams and LaSalle and
Wabansia, places such as the Art Institute of Chicago-they're all
here, sprinkled amid Hecht's nervous little haikus of urban life.
He calls Chicago 'a razzle-dazzle of dreams, tragedies, fantasies,
' and his tales capture gorgeous scraps of it, vivid vignettes
starring businessmen and hobos and cops and socialites and
janitors. . . . Thanks to Hecht, the Chicago of 1922 and the
Chicago of 2009 bump into each other, shake hands, exchange
greetings. Then, this being Chicago, they go for a drink and talk
about old times. New ones too
Sketches In Free Verse About Famous Personalities Of The Theater
And The World Of Politics.
Beautiful phrase. The soul of man, in its struggle toward God knows
what, paused elatedly to contemplate the new milestone. Elated as
all youth is elated for no other reason than that there is a
tomorrow, a tomorrow of unknown and multiple milestones. Elated
with the knowledge of progress-that sage and flattering word by
which the soul of man explains the baffling phenomenon of its
survival. The great men of the day stood staring through
half-closed eyes at the calendars. To anticipate by a single day
But the future no less than the past remains a current mystery. And
the great men-the prophets-confined themselves with stentorian
caution to the prophecy-a new century has dawned.
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