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Delayed Rays of a Star (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525564546)
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xAn NPR Best Book of the Year
A CrimeReads Historical Fiction Best Book of the Year At a chance encounter at a Berlin soir e in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. The trajectories of these women's lives wind from Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from the Bavarian Alps to the Champs- lys es, and the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. In the orbit of each star live secondary players whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left behind. Intimate and clear-eyed, this is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals.
Author: Amanda Lee Koe
ISBN-10: 0525564543
ISBN-13: 9780525564546
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 1.30d
A CrimeReads Historical Fiction Best Book of the Year At a chance encounter at a Berlin soir e in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. The trajectories of these women's lives wind from Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from the Bavarian Alps to the Champs- lys es, and the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. In the orbit of each star live secondary players whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left behind. Intimate and clear-eyed, this is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals.
Author: Amanda Lee Koe
ISBN-10: 0525564543
ISBN-13: 9780525564546
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 1.30d
By Amanda Lee Koe
xAMANDA LEE KOE was the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for the story collection Ministry of Moral Panic. Her working manuscript for Delayed Rays of a Star won the Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by a graduating MFA candidate at Columbia University. Born in Singapore, she lives in New York. This is her first novel.
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