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Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures (2012)

by Emma Straub(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594488452 (ISBN13: 9781594488450)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: A sweeping look into the "Golden Age of Hollywood," Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures captures the transformation of small-town girl into top starlet of American cinema. I appreciate how this author writes; things that shouldn't come as surprises somehow do. It's almost as if Straub anticipates the pre-formed expectations of the reader and swoops onto the idea before the expectation is fully formed. One thing that bothered me - the protagonist's rise to fame seemed a little too easy. Sure there were bumps in the road, but her stardom definitely couldn't be described as hard-won. Besides this minor distraction, however, it was a great read.
review 2: Not being intimately familiar with the lives and loves of the Hollywood set (either in their golden age or current ... moremilieux), I found the story of Laura Lamont to be rather engaging. Her ambitions, her mistakes, her triumphs and tragedies, and particularly her poignant petite-renaissance on the stage in Broadway, all are drawn with confidence and without the tendency to excess one sees in so much contemporary fiction. less

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