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Delayed Rays of a Star

✍ Scribed by Amanda Lee Koe

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Nan A. Talese
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 606 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0385544359

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✦ Synopsis

Named a most anticipated book of the summer by ELLE, USA Today, Thrillist, Kirkus , and LitHub
A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century
At a chance encounter at a Berlin soiree in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous--then, infamous.
From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a...

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