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Dark Lover
Emily Leider
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Description for Dark Lover
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, 48pp b&w illistrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 418.
Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive retelling of Valentino's short and tragic life - the first fully documented biography of the star - Emily W. Leider looks at the Great Lover's life and legacy, and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of his time. Valentino was reviled in the press for being too 'feminine' a man; yet he also brought to the screen the alluring, savage lover who embodied women's darker, forbidden ... Read more
Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive retelling of Valentino's short and tragic life - the first fully documented biography of the star - Emily W. Leider looks at the Great Lover's life and legacy, and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of his time. Valentino was reviled in the press for being too 'feminine' a man; yet he also brought to the screen the alluring, savage lover who embodied women's darker, forbidden ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
514
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571218196
SKU
V9780571218196
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About Emily Leider
Emily W. Leider is the author of Rapid Eye Movement and Other Poems, California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times, and Becoming Mae West. She also edited Yesterday: The Memoir of a Russian-Jewish Family. She lives in San Francisco.
Reviews for Dark Lover
"'Emily Leider scores a bull's eye with this perceptive and compassionate treatment of the star who "helped deflower post-war America".' Sunday Times; 'Brilliantly evocative... brings to life all that was exciting and decadent about the so-called Jazz Age.' Film Review"