Books by Barry Paris and Complete Book Reviews
Barry Paris, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (609p) ISBN 978-0-385-41559-0
This covers actress and author Brooks's life (1907-1985) from her days as a precocious child in Kansas through her sexually promiscuous, hedonistic adult years, here detailed exhaustively. ``The biography is a gossip lover's feast, naming names and...
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Barry Paris, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (654p) ISBN 978-0-394-58020-3
Greta Garbo's melancholy self-obsession, her paradoxical need to perform and withdraw, manifested themselves in her teens, shows Paris (Louise Brooks) in a moving biography that unearths connections between the private woman and the public actress....
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Barry Paris, Author Putnam Adult $35 (452p) ISBN 978-0-399-14056-3
The life of beloved actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) is stylishly explored in this lively, at times even frothy, biography from Paris (Louise Brooks; Garbo). Paris goes a long way toward explaining Hepburn's gamine appeal with his account of her...
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Barry Paris, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (609p) ISBN 978-0-394-55923-0
Film historian Paris covers actress and author Brooks's life (1907-1985) from her days as a precocious child in Kansas through her sexually promiscuous, hedonistic adult years, here detailed exhaustively. Only 15 when she arrived in New York to...
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Barry Paris, Author PublicAffairs $27.5 (400p) ISBN 978-1-891620-13-3
No one ever expected the youngest son of financier William Mellon to establish and manage a hospital in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. But that is exactly what William Larimer (Larry) Mellon Jr. did during the last 35 years of his...
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