Sarah - The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Informationen zum Autor Robert Gottlieb is the author of Lives and Letters, George Balanchine, and Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens . His career in publishing--as editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker --is legendary. Klappentext With panache worthy of his subject, Gottlieb lays out the players as if Bernhardt's life were a stage drama. His charismatic prose captures the spell of the consummate mythmaker.Carol Ockman, coauthor of "Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama" Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. This title tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate - and scandalous - daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gottlieb
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2010
• EAN: 9780300141276
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14127-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 217 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Jewish Lives (Hardcover); Jewish Lives; Jewish Lives (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies