Description
| Product ID: | 9780816637812 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Louise Brooks |
| Subtitle: | A Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Barry Paris |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | Films, cinema, Films, cinema, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: arts & entertainment |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-08-03 |