'SEND YOURSELF ROSES: MY LIFE, LOVES AND LEADING ROLES' - Hardcover

Turner, Kathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075531705X ISBN 13: 9780755317059

Publisher: Headline/Springboard, 2008

Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller SEND YOURSELF ROSES is now in trade paperback. Kathleen Turner has always lived her life according to her own rules. The screen icon opens up about her own life--both personal and professional--the risks she's taken, and the lessons she's learned from her film and stage career, 20-year marriage (and recent seperation), raising her daughter, and her successful struggle with rheumatoid arthritis.In SEND YOURSELF ROSES Turner recounts why she took the roles she did--from her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat to her subsequent craft-stretching roles in Peggy Sue Got Married (for which she received an Academy award nomination), Romancing the Stone, Prizzi's Honor, The War of the Roses, and Serial Mom. And she discusses her recent resurgence on the stage with Tony nominations in her roles as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she also won the a British Evening Standard Award.

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About the Author

Kathleen Turner is an award-winning actress who has starred in over twenty-five films including Prizzi's Honor, Romancing the Stone, and The War of the Roses, along with twelve Broadway shows including The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She is active in Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way, and City Meals on Wheels. She lives in New York City.

Gloria Feldt is the author of The War on Choice and Behind Every Choice Is a Story, a commentator for Huffington Post and Women's e-News, and the former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Her honors include being named Glamour's Woman of the Year and one of Vanity Fair's Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers. She lives in New York City and Arizona.

From Publishers Weekly

Turner has starred in films as diverse as Body Heat and Romancing the Stone; she's had rave reviews for her stage performances in The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Now Turner, with the aid of Gloria Feldt, bares her heart to readers in an upbeat account of her life and work. Turner discovered the theater when she was a teenager living with her Foreign Service family in London; from then on, she took every opportunity to study acting and to perform. Eventually, she landed the steamy lead in Body Heat. Playing such a sexually voracious female role might have typecast her, so she followed it with a comedy, The Man with Two Brains. As she discusses the other acting roles she's chosen, she's emphatic that the selection of material and characters I play reflects my values. She's also been deliberate in her offstage life—her decision to marry, to have a child and to divorce. With great candor, she details some of her worst struggles, battling both rheumatoid arthritis and alcohol. In the end, she's realized it comes down to taking the lead role in her own life. While she may indulge in swear words a bit much for some readers, Turner's vision of life's many possibilities—even as she gets older—is surely inspiring. (Mar.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Headline/Springboard
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075531705X
• ISBN 13: 9780755317059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336