The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story
Histoire (romans), Multiculturalisme (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
Lucille Ball, Hollywood&’s first true media mogul, stars in this &“bold&” (The Boston Globe), &“boisterous novel&” (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a LifeA WASHINGTON… POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • &“A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.&”—Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nickel BoysThis indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author&’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of America&’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille&’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn&’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss&’s follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.