Mary Astor's Purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936 / Edward Sorel.
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TextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781631490231
- Purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936
- 791.4302/8092Â BÂ 23
- PN2287.A8Â S67 2016
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | BIOG ASTOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001610714 | ||
| Book | Parsons Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Parsons Public Library | Adult Books | 791.43 S714 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34315000769986 |
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"In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Resolved to fix up the place, Sorel began pulling up the linoleum on his kitchen floor, tearing away layer after layer until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor ... Featuring over sixty original illustrations, [this book] narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside Sorel's own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse"--Amazon.com.
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