Thing of Beauty
by Fried, Stephen
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- Acceptable
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0671701053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671701055
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Synopsis
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approvaland a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable characterand a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
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- 0671701053-7-1
- Title
- Thing of Beauty
- Author
- Fried, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671701053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671701055
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- This edition first published
- 1994
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.