Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton - The Marriage of the Century
Author(s): Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the king and queen of Hollywood. Yet their two marriages to each other represented much more than outlandish romance. Together, Elizabeth and Richard were a fascinating embodiment of the mores and transgressions of their time and even luminaries like Jacqueline Kennedy looked to them as a barometer of the culture. The enduring glamour, grandeur, drama and bravado embodied in the couple gave rise to the type of rabid gossip and wide-eyed adoration that are the staples of today's media. Using brand-new research and interviews - including unique access to Taylor herself, the Burton family, and Taylor's extensive personal correspondence - this ultimate celebrity biography is the gripping real-life story of a fairy-tale couple whose lives were even grander and more outrageous than the epic films they made.
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"An indulgent, plenty-of-fun book...the authors make shrewd observations...juicy...a good beach book." - New York Times Book Review
Sam Kashner is author of three non-fiction books and one novel, Sinatraland and writes for Vanity Fair, Esquire and GQ.
Nancy Schoenberger teaches creative writing and has written three books.
General Fields
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- : Aurum Press Ltd
- : Aurum Press Ltd
- : 01 April 2011
- : 197mm X 129mm
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
- : Paperback
- : Paperback
- : 791.430280922
- : 791.430280922
- : 512
- : 512
- : b&w illustrations
- : b&w illustrations