Liz : an Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Heymann, Clemens David (1945-)

ISBN 10: 1559722673 / ISBN 13: 9781559722674

Published by Birch Lane, New York, 1995

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 526 pages; Description: 526 p. Illustr. [some colour]. , 30 cm. Subjects: Taylor, Elizabeth (1932-) . Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography. Notes: Includes index and bibliography: p. 455-475. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 85504

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liz : an Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
• Publisher: Birch Lane, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559722673
• ISBN 13: 9781559722674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

A long-awaited, unauthorized biography by the author of A Woman Named Jackie draws on more than a thousand interviews to provide a candid, provocative study of Taylor's film career, turbulent private life, health problems, and more. 500,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Reviews

In a clear-eyed, often startling look at the woman behind the mask, Heymann portrays actress Elizabeth Taylor as, on the one hand, a resilient survivor of career droughts, emotional disasters, drug and alcohol addiction and illnesses, and on the other, an acquisitive, overindulged, caustic, wildly romantic narcissist urgently needing love and attention. The main outlines of the story are familiar: the London-born child star, overprotected by an ambitious mother and an alcoholic father, breaks away from studio regimentation by marrying hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, an alcoholic wife-beater, followed by a succession of husbands whom she generally treats shabbily. Nevertheless, Heymann, bestselling biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Barbara Hutton, interviewed hundreds of Taylor's friends, lovers, co-workers and associates, whose candid recollections, seamlessly woven into the narrative, provide a wealth of intimate detail found in no other biography. Although Donald Spoto's new biography of Taylor, A Passion for Life (Forecasts, March 20), is more analytical, sharply focused and much stronger on film criticism, Heymann's portrait will rivet fans.
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