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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
Fabric Type: 9780300120400
Fax Number: First Edition
Legal Disclaimer: 0300120400
Maximum Color Depth: Yale University Press
Metal Type: Yale University Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 240
Total External Bays Free: March 24, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780300120400
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description:
A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous blend of funny-smart sex symbol with the aura of high culture—she boasted that she liked to read Great Books and listen to classical music while taking off her clothes on-stage—inspired a musical, memoirs, a portrait by Max Ernst, and a species of rose. Gypsy is the first book about Gypsy Rose Lee’s life, fame, and place in America not written by a family member, and it reveals her deep impact on the social and cultural transformations taking shape during her life.
Rachel Shteir, author of the prize-winning Striptease, gives us Gypsy’s story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her history in divergent ways, and a television biopic currently in the making. With verve, audacity, and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee moved striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway, Hollywood, and Main Street. Gypsy tells how she did it, and why.
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I am a big fan of Gypsy Rose Lee and was excited to read this over-due biography of Miss Lee's. Unfortunately, this is not the book I was hoping to read. This biography reads more like a text book rather than your typical bio. It doesn't delve into her everyday life or even give us samples of her letter writing of which she wrote many. Although there are a few interesting facts such as Mike Todd's family had denied(until very recently) that he had any relationship with Gypsy until the author was ... Read More
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"Gypsy" couldn't decide whether it was a biography of Gypsy Rose Lee or an examination of her role in the history of stripping and of female sexuality in general. As a result, it failed to interest me on either level.
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My brother served as Gypsy Rose Lee's escort officer in Vietnam. For a unique perspective of her January 1969 USO tour, here is an extract from from the longish chapter titled "Gypsy" in my latest book, A Hundred Feet Over Hell:
"A week into the tour we were in a ward reserved for senior NCOs. She went from bed to bed, greeting each soldier with a few light words until she reached one who must have been in his late forties. Badly wounded, he started to cry as soon as she touched him, ... Read More
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This is a brilliant study of the world's most famous stripper, though Gypsy Rose Lee was so much more than that. In her personality and long career, she symbolized a new era of feminism and sexual liberation, and the impact of her life on American culture still resonates. Stellar creative non-fiction is illusive; it is very hard to find a writer who combines the perseverance for research, the deep background knowledge of a subject, and sheer narrative skill. This author has it all. I was mesmerized ... Read More
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