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Thing of Beauty Mass market paperbound - 1994
by Stephen Fried
Award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Fried offers a remarkable tour of the fashion world in the '70s and '80s as he explores the tragic life and death of beautiful model Gia Carange--who plunged from fame and fortune to an underworld of drug abuse and violence.
Summary
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approvaland a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable characterand a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable characterand a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
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- Title Thing of Beauty
- Author Stephen Fried
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition First Pocket Boo
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pocket Books, New York, NY
- Date 1994
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780671701055 / 0671701053
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 6.92 x 4.24 x 1.04 in (17.58 x 10.77 x 2.64 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92024800
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
The New York Times Book Review
Vivid...The story of Gia Carangi...should be set out among the fashion magazines in modeling agency waiting rooms and any other place where teen-age girls who've been called pretty a little too often hang out...Stephen Fried's exhaustive account of Gia's brief life seems to have an important unanswered quesition on every page: why didn't anyone help Gia?
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 05/23/1994, Page 0
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