"From the Man Booker Prize-winner, a brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother's celebrated career and boh...

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1. Verfasser:	Enright, Anne 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Jonathan Cape [2020]
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Actresses / Fiction Mothers and daughters / Fiction FICTION / Historical FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women Actresses Mothers and daughters Mother-daughter relationship / Fiction Fiction Novels Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	"From the Man Booker Prize-winner, a brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother's and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland's bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London's West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a star turn, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cannot survive Katherine's past or the world's damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, her grip on reality grows fitful and, fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime. Her mother's protector, Norah understands the destructive love that binds an actress to her audience, but also the strength that an actress takes from her art. Once the victim of a haunting crime herself, Norah eventually becomes a writer, wife, and mother, finding her way to her own hard-won joy. Actress is finally a book about the freedom we find in our work and in the love we make and keep."--
Beschreibung:	263 Seiten
ISBN:	9781787332065