The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Kessler, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812992520 ISBN 13: 9780812992526

Verlag: Random House, 2000

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La feliz fondo caballo Club Pancho Barnes era una fuerza de la naturaleza, una mujer que vivió una vida grande, desordenada, colorida, no convencional. Corrió a través de tres fortunas, cuatro maridos y amantes incontables. Ella outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank del ejército mexicano, y hacia fuera - maniobra del gobierno de Estados Unidos. En el feliz fondo Riding Club, galardonado autor Lauren Kessler cuenta la historia de un alto espíritu, cabeza... Descripción completa

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Advance praise for The Happy Bottom Riding Club

"The hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous pilot and adventuress Florence 'Pancho' Barnes exploded every feminine stereotype on the books. Thank you, Lauren Kessler, for telling her story with the grace and exuberance it deserves."
---Barbara Ehrenreich

"Pancho Barnes is an unsung American eccentric who helped keep the 'wild' in Wild West. With tremendous zest, insight, and intelligence, Lauren Kessler has given us a compelling tale of a great woman who wasn't afraid to make life synonymous with risk."
---Karen Karbo, author of Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me

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Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her own legend.
        
Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited a love of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in the Civil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crust pretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife and mother to create her own life. She cruised South America. She trekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfway across the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, she took to the skies, one of a handful of female pilots.
        
She was a barnstormer, a racer, a cross-country flier, and a Hollywood stunt pilot. She was, for a time, "the fastest woman on earth," flying the fastest civilian airplane in the world. She was an intimate of movie stars, a script doctor for the great director Erich von Stroheim, and, later in life, a drinking buddy of the supersonic jet jockey Chuck Yeager. She ran a wild and wildly successful desert watering hole known as the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the raucous bar and grill depicted in The Right Stuff.
        
In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Lauren Kessler presents a portrait, both authoritative and affectionate, of a woman who didn't play by women's rules, a woman of large appetites--emotional, financial, and sexual--who called herself "the greatest conversation piece that ever existed.". NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0812992520
• ISBN 13: 9780812992526
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352