Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. - Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman - Hardcover

Wasson, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061774154 ISBN 13: 9780061774157

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Oratio de Fatalibus Imperatorum, Regnorum Rerum Publicarum, AC Urbium Periodis (1649)

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Críticas:

Anyone even slightly interested in Capote/Hepburn/Breakfast at Tiffany s will delight in [Wasson s] account. --USA Today

The anecdotes are numerous and deftly told. This well-researched, entertaining page-turner should appeal to a broad audience, particularly those who enjoy film history that focuses on the human factors involved in the creative process while also drawing on larger social and cultural contexts. --Library Journal

Rich in incident and set among the glitterati of America s most glamorous era, the book reads like a novel [Wasson] has assembled a sparkling time capsule of old Hollywood magic and mythmaking. --Kirkus Reviews

Sam Wasson s exquisite portrait of Audrey Hepburn peels backs her sweet facade to reveal a much more complicated and interesting woman. He also captures a fascinating turning point in American history when women started to loosen their pearls, and their inhibitions. I devoured this book. --Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City

A fascination with fascination is one way of describing Wasson s interest in a film that not only captures the sedate elegance of a New York long gone, but that continues to entrance as a love story, a style manifesto, and a way to live. --New York magazine

Audrey Hepburn dances through the pages of Sammy Wasson s portrait of a movie and a little black dress that were game changers at the dawn of the sixties. Both juicy and informative, Fifth Avenue, 5 AM provides the inside story while giving Hepburn her due as a true modern original. --Molly Haskell, author of Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited

Reads like carefully crafted fiction [Wasson] carries the reader from pre-production to on-set feuds and conflicts, while also noting Hepburn s impact on fashion (Givenchy s little black dress), Hollywood glamour, sexual politics, and the new morality. Capote would have been entranced. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A brilliant chronicle of the creation of Breakfast at Tiffany s. Wasson has woven the whole so deftly that it reads like a compulsively page-turning novel. This is a memorable achievement. --Peter Bogdanovich

Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian...[Fifth Avenue, 5 AM] is as melancholy and glittering as Capote s story of Holly Golightly. --The New Yorker

A breezy tale of dresses and breakfast pastries, this is not...the subtexts of Breakfast at Tiffany s materialism, sexual freedom were decidedly more complicated. --Women's Wear Daily

Reseña del editor:

Depicts the making of the iconic film Breakfast at Tiffany's in the late 1950s, drawing on interviews with those involved in the film's production, including the actors, producer Richard Shepherd and late author Truman Capote's biographer, Gerald Clarke. 30,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061774154
• ISBN 13: 9780061774157
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256