Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Carr, Cynthia

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar...
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Author: Cynthia Carr
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Carr, Cynthia

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

$355.29

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

$355.29
Author: Cynthia Carr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.

Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.

Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York's early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol's films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play.

Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: "I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me." Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, as conversations about gender and identity were really just starting. She never knew it, but she changed the world.

Packed with tales of luminaries and gossip and meticulous research, immersive and laced with Candy's words and her friends' recollections, Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling is Candy's long-overdue return to the spotlight.

Includes 16 pages of color photographs

Author: Cynthia Carr
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/19/2024
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250066350


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 22

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