My Judy Garland Life
BOYT S
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
NZ$29.99
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Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star. Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring and at times disturbing her. In this unique book, Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero worship, reviewing through the prism of Judy our understanding of rescue, consolation, love, grief and fame. What does it mean to adore someone you don't know? What is the proper husbandry of a twenty-first century obsession? Boyt's journey takes in a duetting breakfast with Mickey Rooney, a Munchkin luncheon, tea with th ...
Publication date: 2009-06-26
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Virago
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Film, TV & Radio, Films, Cinema, Individual Actors & Performers, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Biography & True Stories, Biography: General, Social Sciences, Sociology, Popular Culture
Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)