Sleeping With Bad Boys: A 1956 Playboy Model's Escapades with James Dean, Hugh Hefner, Norman Mailer and the famous writers of the 1950's beat generation - Softcover

Denham, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580422063 ISBN 13: 9781580422062

Publisher: Cardoza, 2006

Synopsis

A revealing memoir by a Playboy playmate whose 1950s centerfold was simultaneously published in the magazine along with an original work of her fiction describes her relationships with famous writers and celebrities throughout the course of her career. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Alice Denham is the author of three novels and has written articles for Cosmopolitan, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, The Village Voice, and The Washingtonian. She lives in New York City and San Miguel, Mexico.

From Publishers Weekly:

Denham, an essayist, television writer and the only woman whose fiction and breasts have appeared in the same issue of Playboy, offers up a fast-paced memoir that chronicles how a pretty girl from suburban Washington ended up on a bar stool at the storied Lion's Head. Run-ins with notorious figures-Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Marlon Brando, Hugh Hefner-pepper nearly every page, though readers interested in the hot dirt promised by the flap copy will be disappointed, as the "bad boys" here come off as little more than horny juveniles, and Denham skimps on the steam when she sacks with, say, James Dean. Most of the narrative is consumed with her slow-out-of-the-gate literary career that limps along; as her peers became icons, Denham modeled until the gigs dried up, and then wrote freelance. Though Denham reveals little that isn't widely known (Roth is a perv, Mailer is a freak), the sheer number of names dropped and follies recounted make for a fast and fun read.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Cardoza
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1580422063
• ISBN 13: 9781580422062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256