{"product_id":"garbo-hardcover","title":"Garbo - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice One of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's 125 best books about Hollywood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,\" Robert Gottlieb writes in \u003ci\u003eGarbo\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams.\" Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world's subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world--and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed--was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe's. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world's most famous actress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGarbo\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the world--her desperate, futile striving to be \"left alone.\" He takes us through the films themselves, from M-G-M's early presentation of her as a \"vamp\"--her overwhelming beauty drawing men to their doom, a formula she loathed--to the artistic heights of \u003ci\u003eCamille\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNinotchka\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Garbo Laughs!\"), by way of \u003ci\u003eAnna Christie\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Garbo Talks!\"), \u003ci\u003eMata Hari\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrand Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e. He examines her passive withdrawal from the movies, and the endless attempts to draw her back. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New York--\"a hermit about town\"--and the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. Her relationships with her famous co-star John Gilbert, with Cecil Beaton, with Leopold Stokowski, with Erich Maria Remarque, with George Schlee--were they consummated? Was she bisexual? Was she sexual at all? The whole world wanted to know--and still wants to know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls \"A Garbo Reader,\" brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo from other people's memoirs and interviews, ranging from Ingmar Bergman and Tallulah Bankhead to Roland Barthes; from literature (she turns up everywhere--in Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e, in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and the letters of Marianne Moore and Alice B. Toklas); from countless songs and cartoons and articles of merchandise. Most extraordinary of all are the pictures--250 or so ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshots--all reproduced here in superb duotone. She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of Garbo is essentially the story of a face and the camera. Forty years after her career ended, she was still being tormented by unrelenting paparazzi wherever she went. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes Black-and-White Photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e has been the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the head of Alfred A. Knopf, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He has contributed frequently to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and is the author of \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorge Balanchine: The Ballet Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAvid Reader: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2015, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768046518560,"sku":"9780374298357","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b119593bf2597a30c1963deda6708137.webp?v=1780323422","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/garbo-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}