Get Happy
The Life of Judy Garland
$46.08
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2001
Summary
Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. Combining a novelist’s skill and a movie director’s eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Holl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751531602 |
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| ISBN-10: | 075153160X |
| Author: | Gerald Clarke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 201mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
[A] masterful biography.
[A] masterful biography. - SUNDAY TIMES
A Hollywood biography in the classic mould…[it is the] deep insecurity allied with greatness that Clarke explores so well. This is a sympathetic biography in that it seeks explanations, although Clarke properly makes no attempt to gloss over the Garland - GLASGOW HERALDThis biography carries us through Garland’s show-stopping highs and pill-popping lows in high style, showing her considerable wit and glamour as well as the misery of a young performer manipulated by the studio…Clarke’s biography whips smoothly through the years with minimal hyperbole and his subject emerges triumphant. - OBSERVERThere have been plenty of books on Judy, but Clarke is the only writer to have access to her 68 manuscript pages of her unfinished biography. Drawing on a remarkable number of sources, he has produced the definitive life. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Gerald Clarke
Gerald Clarke is the author of CAPOTE, the much acclaimed bestselling biography of Truman Capote. He has also written for many magazines, including ESQUIRE and TIME, where for many years he was a senior writer.
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