Thing of Beauty by Fried, Stephen

Thing of Beauty

The inspiration behind the Emmy Award-winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this "vivid...exhaustive" (The New York...
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Author: Stephen Fried
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Language: English
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Thing of Beauty by Fried, Stephen

Thing of Beauty

€19,63

Thing of Beauty

€19,63
Author: Stephen Fried
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The inspiration behind the Emmy Award-winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this "vivid...exhaustive" (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author.

At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world's top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry's standard of beauty.

But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS.

This "chilling tale" (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society's views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.

Author: Stephen Fried
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.31w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781668050798

About the Author
Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, and the Washington Post Magazine. A winner of a 1993 National Magazine Award, the Distinguished Service Award for Magazine Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife Diane Ayres, a fiction writer

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