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Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Straub, Emma
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- Title Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
- Author Straub, Emma
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 306
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, NY
- Date 2012-09-04
- Bookseller's Inventory # D06A-03186
- ISBN 9781594488450 / 1594488452
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Fame, Motion picture actors and actresses
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012011330
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age.
In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and more than anything, Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child¹s game of pretend.
While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is discovered by Irving Green, one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood, who refashions her as a serious, exotic brunette and renames her Laura Lamont. Irving becomes Laura’s great love; she becomes an Academy Award-winning actressand a genuine movie star. Laura experiences all the glamour and extravagance of the heady pinnacle of stardom in the studio-system era, but ultimately her story is a timeless one of a woman trying to balance career, family, and personal happiness, all while remaining true to herself.
Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures is as intimateand as bigger-than-lifeas the great films of the golden age of Hollywood. Written with warmth and verve, it confirms Emma Straub’s reputation as one of the most exciting new talents in fiction.