I’m a big fan of Old
Hollywood, and I previously published a biography of the iconoclastic and classic
film actress Jean Arthur. So, I naturally gravitated to this novel about a 79-year-old Hollywood star looking back
over her colorful and controversial life and career. I found more substance and
character development in this fictional tale than you’ll find in most “true” movie
star memoirs.
The book is narrated alternatively through the eyes of the book’s
subject, Evelyn Hugo, and her youthful journalist-interviewer. Neither of them shies
from exposing Evelyn’s flaws and miscues over many decades (and seven
husbands), yet in this poignant telling, the faded star ends up shining
brightly.
"If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." -Bustle
From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six-an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready…
I've read probably twenty books on Abraham
Lincoln. Just when I thought there could hardly be another comes this excellent
book by the host of NPR's Morning Edition.
It's not terribly long
and is divided into 16 chapters, one for each individual Lincoln encountered
with whom he had his differences to greater and lesser extents.
They run the
gamut from the famous (Frederick Douglass, General George McClellan) to the
obscure (Lincoln's African-American barber). As well as any recent Lincoln book, it demonstrates our greatest president's capacity for empathy, humanity, and
wisdom coupled with a steely determination to pursue the twin goals of saving
the Union and freeing the slaves.
A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present
In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyerAbraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a Kentucky slaveowner. Lincoln rebuked his friend for failing to oppose slavery. But he added: “If for this you and I must differ, differ we must,” and said they would be friends forever. Throughout his life and political career, Lincoln often agreed to disagree. Democracy demanded…
Both
hilarious and, at times, heartbreaking, this autobiographical account of a young
British doctor’s life on the hospital front lines is the best book in years
about what it’s really like to tend to patients truly in need as well as those
who merely think they are sick.
It was subsequently made into a BBC and
AMC television series and written by a real doctor who is now a comedian and
television writer.
The format is a series of diary entries that make you laugh,
cry, and feel as if you’re right there with the author in the emergency room
during his frequent, nearly 24-hour shifts.
A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS…
The charismatic daughter of Abraham
Lincoln’s treasury secretary, Kate Chase, enjoyed unprecedented political power
for a woman.
As her widowed father’s
hostess, she set up a rival “court” against Mary Lincoln in hopes of making her
father president and herself his First Lady. She moved easily between the
worlds of high fashion, adorning herself in the most regal Parisian gowns and
politics, managing her father’s presidential campaigns.
Kate Chase’s dramatic story is one of ambition
and tragedy, set against the seductive allure of the Civil War and Gilded Age and involving some of the most famous personalities in American history.
