Garbo: A Biography by Paris, Barry

Sidgwick & Jackson. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. VGC.Sidwick & Jackson,1995.First UK edition-first printing(9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,mark on the edge of the front cover) with Dj(some creases,nicks and large scratch on the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.Nice and clean pages but with some foxing marks on the outer edges of the pages,small ink marks inside the Dj cover,some creases on the edges of the pages,pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.660pp including Appendices,filmography,notes,bibliography,index.Price clipped.A collectable first edition-first printing.Heavy book(approx. 1.3 Kg). This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Greta Garbo's melancholy self-obsession, her paradoxical need to perform and withdraw, manifested themselves in her teens, shows Paris (Louise Brooks) in a moving biography that unearths connections between the private woman and the public actress. Recurring traumas of abandonment-the deaths of her father, Karl, a Stockholm landscapist, when she was 14, and of her beautiful actress sister Alva, victim of cancer at age 23-molded Garbo (1905-1990) into a high-strung, hypersensitive recluse pathologically afraid of betrayal, of commitment, of pregnancy, according to Paris. The Swedish sphinx moved to Hollywood in 1925 and became the sex fantasy of the century, an androgynous, exotic persona on whom millions projected their desires, yet, by this account, she was a largely celibate narcissist who longed for an idealized hearth and home. Garbo found a substitute family in the home of her closest friend, actress Salka Viertel, and this revealing biography, featuring 180 photographs woven into the narrative, draws on the 50-year Garbo-Viertel correspondence, on firsthand reminiscences and on Garbo's taped conversations with her confidante, New York City art dealer Sam Green, which fills in details of her last decades of self-imposed exile in Manhattan and trips abroad.