Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged. In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in life--figures as diverse as Frances Fa
Dark Sparkler: Poems
β Scribed by Tamblyn, Amber
- Book ID
- 108154055
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062348166
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged.
In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in lifeβfigures as diverse as Frances Farmer and Brittany Murphy, Jayne Mansfield and Dana Plato, Jean Harlow and Sharon Tate, Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne and Marilyn Monroe. Their stories invite us behind the eyes of a century's worth of women, the adored and the disappeared.
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