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Cargando... Thing of Beauty (edición 1994)por Stephen Fried
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book brought me to laughter, tears, excitement, then to tears again. I wasn't expecting to feel such a connection with Gia. Yes some of the errors/typos in there got a little distracting, but overall it was a good book with lots of insight into the modelling industry and the family, romance, and friendships behind this beautiful, heartbreaking enigma that is Gia. At times I couldn't wait until this demanding novel ended, but was sad when I did get to the final page. Ultimately this is a sad story, and an eye-opener about what can happen when you play with fire (read: drugs). But if you are up for a wild, adventurous story, with everything from sex, rock n' roll, to AIDS, fame, and family drama, then this is the book for you. While entrenched in this sad and sometimes shocking story of a beautiful child living in a grownup world, suffering from borderline personality, losing herself to heroine and eventually dying of AIDS, I found myself truly affected by her tale. Although I was bored by some of the detail and gossip of the fashion world, the book shed a lot of light into Gia's larger than life existence and constant inner struggle with who she was, what others wanted her to be and what she needed. Love on ya, babe! www.booksnakereviews.blogspot.com Book in progress. I have been reading this book for nearly six years (no joke). I do not know why I can not finish it even though it is an excellent book. I think that I have not finished it because I am into fiction right now and not so much into bios and it is not for any reason relating to the quality of the book or the way that it is written. I think what prevents me from finishing this book is that I am well studied and have a lot of knowledge about the subject as well as seen the movie numerous times. Although I have seen the HBO movie "Gia" near a million times the book is much better because the movie leaves out facts, changes things around and is significantly less accurate than the book. I thought I knew about Gia from watching the movie but I knew next to nothing I found out after reading the book and doing research on the world wide web. The author did great research writing this biography and I recommend this book to anybody into fashion, models, drug abuse and aids or anyone just looking for a good read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 approval--and 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 character--and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty
Given to me by a friend for a gift. I had seen a film on Gia, with Angelina Jolie playing the lead role.
In case, you have not hear d of her, Gia was..well Gia was beautiful. Truly beautiful. And she was a super model. She tragically died of AIDS.
I did enjoy reading this although it was very sad..heartbreaking actually. It gives you a look inside the world of modeling but really its focus is on Gia herself. I have to say the book was written so well and though I only gave it a three that is because of how bitterly sad it was.
I recommend the movie as well. ( )