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Title Statement | Delayed rays of a star: a novel / Amanda Lee Koe. |
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Author | Lee, Amanda Koe, 1987- |
Publication | New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,[2019]©2019 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 383 pages |
ISBN | 0385544340 (pbk.) 9780385544344 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3579228 |
Summary | "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée 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 Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysée, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours."--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Actresses--Fiction |
Chinese American women--Fiction | |
Women motion picture producers and directors--Fiction | |
By Name | Dietrich, Marlene |
Wong, Anna May,1905-1961 | |
Riefenstahl, Leni | |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |
Historical fiction |