Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Out Time.

Brenda Maddox

ISBN 10: 0246109165 / ISBN 13: 9780246109163

Published by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, Great Britain, 1977

About this Item

The author has written much more than a biography of Elizabeth Taylor. She has taken a cool look at the phenomenon of a woman on the world's mind for thirty years, asks how the phenomenon was created, and why we have all paid so much attention. It is, too, an exposure of a public myth: of Taylor's private as well as public life - her marraiges, her obsession with jewellery, her love for children. This is a thoroughly sharp, perceptive, and entertaining portrait. Illustrated. 256 pp. Tear to top corner of back of D/J.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Out Time.
• Publisher: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246109165
• ISBN 13: 9780246109163
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiographies -Biography sociology -

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Synopsis

Who's afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? Nearly everyone is - the mid-twentieth-century all-purpose female myth incarnate. But Brenda Maddox thinks she knows the truth; Taylor has fallen victim to the vulgar fantasy dream created by her own publicists....Follow her here from pony-girl of National Velvet to regal Burton matron and now ambitious politician's wife... Are you afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?