Liz : An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Heymann, C. David

ISBN 10: 1559722673 / ISBN 13: 9781559722674

Published by Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, NJ, U.S.A., 1995

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Both book and dj have some minor edge wear but still quite nice. 526pp includidng index.

Seller Inventory # NRB318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liz : An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, NJ, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559722673
• ISBN 13: 9781559722674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Photos
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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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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