Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind : Alien Abduction - Witnesses and Scientists Report

Bryan, C. D. B.

ISBN 10: 0593035135 / ISBN 13: 9780593035139

Edité par London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995

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First UK edition 8vo 476 pages Fine dark blue cloth hard back with fine dust jacket. Noinscriptions or marks.

N° de réf. du vendeur 8337

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind : Alien Abduction - Witnesses and Scientists Report
• Éditeur: London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0593035135
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780593035139
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

This work is an expose of the international modelling industry. The images of Christy, Naomi, Cindy and Linda are everywhere we turn. They are on magazine covers, and in advertisements, they host television shows, endorse products, write novels, marry rock stars, act in films, and open restaurants. They dominate the gossip columns and tabloid front pages. The international obsession with the supermodels is fuelled by more than an accident of great looks. Behind these few women is a vast army of photographers, designers, stylists, agents, publicists, fashion editors and advertisers. This book tells the story of the modelling business and its more evil twin - legalized flesh peddling. It's a tale of vast sums of money, rape, sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death. At its heart is the combination of beautiful young women and rich, predatory men. Fashion insider, Michael Gross has interviewed modelling's pioners, survivors, and hangers-on, and he tells the stories of Lisa Fonssagrives, Anita Colby, Candy Jones, Dorian Leigh and her sister Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Veruschka and Lauren Hutton; and today's supermodels Christy, Naomi and Linda. Around them is woven the story of the modelling industry and of senior figures such as John Robert Powers and Eileen Ford, and John Casablancas of Elite models.

Revue de presse

“Rewarding...highly enjoyable, perhaps unprecedented. The definitive work of the Barbizon school.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Absorbing reading. Essential.” (Library Journal)

“A book stripping models bare has electrified fashion...Lurid stories of sex, drugs, rock and frocks.” (International Herald Tribune)

“Sensational...Reveals the steamy secrets of the superbabes...Delivers everything...” (The Daily News)

“Staggeringly well–researched...Hideously fascinating.” (Cosmopolitan)

“Already in our Amazon shopping basket, we highly recommend you pick-up this wildly interesting bestseller as well.” (modelina.com)

“One long, scurrilously detailed dish. The first comprehensive history of modeling and a chewy read.” (Harper's Bazaar)

“Modeling is a dirty business—and we can’t get enough of it...The book...names names and dishes dirt, on–the–record kiss–and–tell.” (Newsweek)

“Page–turning exposé.” (Vogue)

“Sprawling...energetic...Gross has obviously thought deeply about the machinations and meaning of the modeling business.” (People)

“Scandalous...the exposé of record of the modeling industry.” (Entertainment Weekly)