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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shawn LevyPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: Collins Dimensions: Width: 13.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 20.20cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780007170609ISBN 10: 0007170602 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 31 October 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsA fitting elegy for a forgotten boldfaced name and a thoughtful study of mid-20th-century Pan-American politics. --Entertainment Weekly A terrific story about a fascinating character. -- John Malkovich As Shawn Levy amply documents in his bubbly, breathless and appropriately inconsequential biography, Rubirosa worked hard at having fun. --New York Times Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place...a perfect tribute. --Publishers Weekly A terrific story about a fascinating character. --John Malkovich A fitting elegy for a forgotten boldfaced name and a thoughtful study of mid-20th-century Pan-American politics. --Entertainment Weekly A compelling piece of social history...written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality. --Booklist Fascinating . . . A compulsive read. Shawn Levy is one of our best popular culture journalist-historians. --Lewis MacAdams, author of Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde As Shawn Levy amply documents in his bubbly, breathless and appropriately inconsequential biography, Rubirosa worked hard at having fun. --New York Times Shawn Levy has written more than a good book--this is an irresistible read. Hollywood will soon come knocking. --Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the Roosevelt Center at Rulane University Author InformationSHAWN LEVY is the author of six previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Rat Pack Confidential and Paul Newman: A Life. He served as film critic of The Oregonian from 1997 to 2012 and is a former senior editor of American Film and a former associate editor of Box Office. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Independent, Film Comment, Movieline, and Sight and Sound, among many other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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