Jane Fonda: Private Life of a Public Woman - Couverture rigide

Bosworth, Patricia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184954168X ISBN 13 : 9781849541688

Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2011

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Nothing about Fonda s life escapes the keen eye of Patricia Bosworth, who tells the life story of a cinema icon, one of the most intriguing women of our era. You will be enthralled from start to finish. --Kitty Kelley

The remarkable reconstruction of long ago events has a fly-on-the-wall viewpoint, written with such intimacy that it sometimes generates the strange sensation of being present with Fonda and her friends. With access to Fonda s FBI files and personal papers, plus extensive interviews with her family and colleagues, Bosworth has succeeded in capturing Fonda s step-by-step transformation from wide-eyed, apolitical ingénue to the poised personality of recent decades. --Publishers Weekly

The remarkable reconstruction of long ago events has a fly-on-the-wall viewpoint, written with such intimacy that it sometimes generates the strange sensation of being present with Fonda and her friends. With access to Fonda s FBI files and personal papers, plus extensive interviews with her family and colleagues, Bosworth has succeeded in capturing Fonda s step-by-step transformation from wide-eyed, apolitical ingénue to the poised personality of recent decades. --Publishers Weekly

Présentation de l'éditeur

As actress, activist, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Jane Fonda has pushed herself to the limit, attempting to please all, excel in every arena, be everything. We've read her version of her controversial life, yet nothing can prepare us for this genuinely revelatory account of Jane's engrossing, sometimes shocking journey. Supplemented by the psychiatric records of her suicidal, bipolar mother, Fonda's FBI file, and interviews with her intimates, this perceptive portrait strips away hype and the subject's own mythmaking. Patricia Bosworth shows us what a toll Jane's quest to excel (and please her demanding father, Henry) exacted and sheds light on truths she's glossed over: her rejection of her mother before her suicide; the death threats and self-doubts of her antiwar crusade; her second husband Tom Hayden's habit of putting her down while spending her fortune; the emotional downfall that led her to stop acting and marry Ted Turner. Lee Strasberg once said that Jane had "panic in her eyes," and it is this wounded but so familiar woman-human yet still heroic, the embodiment of a generation's conflicts and triumphs-whom Bosworth captures so utterly and definitively.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Biteback Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184954168X
• ISBN 13: 9781849541688
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400