3.5
Crowned Heads
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Fedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora's perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told—a shocking revelation that will raise her to the level of myth.
These four novellas tell the story of Fedora and three of her costars in 1955's infamous
Alongside the ageless beauty are William Marsh, whose days as a leading man are numbered; Bobbitt, a former child star still trading on his boyish good looks; and Lorna, a dim bulb who's too sexy for her own good. When the film was shot, they were headed in different directions, but all ended up in the same place: forgotten, loathed, and unlamented.
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“Told in four parts with the first being the base for the others to expand. To start, there is the story of a woman who became an actor known as the most beautiful and talented of them all. She is a mysterious woman who appears never to age. Each subsequent part is about another actor who appeared in a movie with her. The four parts are loosely connected with one another.
The book is delightfully dark and macabre with each part more so than the last. This is a slow-paced read with terrific character development. It took me a while to get into it as it reads as straight fiction at first before one realizes that everything is not as it seems. Once I got going I became hooked and fascinated all the way to the twisted last part.
I've now read two of Tryon's books and must continue reading them all.”About Thomas Tryon
Thomas Tryon (1926–1991), actor turned author, made his bestselling debut with
(1971), which spent nearly six months on the
bestseller list and allowed him to quit acting for good; a film adaptation, with a screenplay by Tryon and directed by Robert Mulligan, appeared in 1972. Tryon wrote two more novels set in the fictional Pequot Landing of
—
(1973) and
(1974).
(1976) detailed the lives of four fictional film stars and
(1986) explored the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood.
(published posthumously in 1995) was a modern-day retelling of
.
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