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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780609809570
Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this was
true. A superstitious Russian immigrant who claimed to be royalty,
Maria had been told by a gypsy, long before little Natasha
Zakharenko’s birth, that her second child would be famous
throughout the world. When the beautiful child with the hypnotic
eyes was first placed in Maria’s arms, she knew the prophecy would
become true and proceeded to do everything in her power —
everything — to make sure of it.
Natasha is the haunting story of a vulnerable and talented
actress whom many of us felt we knew. We watched her mature on the
movie screen before our eyes — in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel
Without a Cause, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, and on and
on. She has been hailed — along with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth
Taylor — as one of the top three female movie stars in the history
of film, making her a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. But
the story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was like when
the doors of the soundstages closed, has long been obscured.
Natasha is based on years of exhaustive research into Natalie’s
turbulent life and mysterious drowning in the dark water that was
her greatest fear. Author Suzanne Finstad, a former lawyer,
conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie’s family,
close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtually
everyone connected with the investigation of her strange death.
Through these firsthand accounts from many who have never spoken
publicly before, Finstad has reconstructed a life of emotional
abuse and exploitation, of almost unprecedented fame, great
loneliness, poignancy, and loss. She sheds an unwavering light on
Natalie’s complex relationships with James Dean, Elvis Presley,
Frank Sinatra, Raymond Burr, Warren Beatty, and Robert Wagner and
reveals the two lost loves of Natalie’s life, whom her controlling
mother prevented her from marrying. Finstad tells this beauty’s
heartbreaking story with sensitivity and grace, revealing a complex
and conflicting mix of fragility and strength in a woman who was
swept along by forces few could have resisted. Natasha is
impossible to put down — it is the definitive biography of Natalie
Wood that we’ve long been waiting for.
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