
Inside Daisy Clover
Gavin Lambert(Author)
Serpent's Tail (Publisher)
Published on 14. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85242-424-4 (ISBN)
Description
A precocious teenager chronicles her own rise from trailer-park squalor to singing stardom by way of a supermarket talent contest. In her journals, Daisy Clover tells the story of how she is discovered by a hollywood movie producer at fourteen and proceeds through large doses of work, sex and Benzedrine to a twenty-four-hour marriage, a nervous breakdown, retirement and finally obscurity in New York. A has-been before her late teens, she makes a vaudeville comeback in Atlantic City at the age of twenty-four.
Reviews / Votes
Decades before it was fashionable, Gavin Lambert expertly wove characters of every sexual stripe into his lustrous tapestries of Southern California life. His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled -- Armistead Maupin When it comes to pulp fiction, Serpent's Tail is the publisher with the juice. The cigarettes and whiskey you find on your own * Detour Magazine *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-424-4 (9781852424244)
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Person
Gavin Lambert was born in England but lived for much of his life in Hollywood. He was the author of several novels (The Slide Area, Inside Daisy Clover, The Goodbye People), non-fiction (including On Cukor, The Dangerous Edge) and screenplays (Sons and Lovers, for which he gained an Academy Award nomination). Gavin Lambert died in 2005.