Cinderella and the Carpetbagger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinderella and the Carpetbagger write by Grace Robbins. This book was released on 1934-09-15. Cinderella and the Carpetbagger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When she pulled The Carpetbaggers off the shelf, looking for a good read to while away the weekend, Grace Palermo never imagined that she would soon meet the book s international best-selling author, let alone spend the next thirty years of her life with him. When Grace and Harold met, his career was already well established, but over the next thirty years, his fame would become legendary, as did their lifestyle together. This engrossing memoir spans the 60s, 70s, and 80s, in all their hallucinogenic and freewheeling splendor. The couple was at the center of a globetrotting jet set, with mansions in Beverly Hills, villas and yachts in the South of France and Acapulco, known for their lavish and sometimes orgiastic parties. Their life together rivaled that of the characters in Harold s books, but in the privacy of their home things weren t always as they seemed. Not only does Grace Robbins reveal what it was like to live alongside the prince of sex and scandal, but she also takes us on journey of rollicking good fun, be it through anecdotes of a chance meeting with Pablo Picasso, a lifetime friendship with James Baldwin, or a racy evening in Hamburg with composer Frederick Lowe. With charm, introspection, and humor, Grace lays open her fascinating, roller-coaster ride, Cinderella tale--and the secrets she harbored for some forty years.
Cinderella and the Carpetbagger
Cinderella and the Carpetbagger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinderella and the Carpetbagger write by Grace Robbins. This book was released on 2013. Cinderella and the Carpetbagger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 60s and '70s were decades like no others--radical, experimental, libertine. Globetrotting Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times with the jetting set from megamansions in Beverly Hills to yachts on the French Riviera--and the secrets they kept.
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stranger Than Fiction write by Grace Robbins. This book was released on 1999-06-01. Stranger Than Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-time wife of the best-selling author reveals the debauchery behind the literary facade, in a tell-all account of a twenty-eight-year marriage marked by money, power, and sexual excess that mirrored the writer's often titillating work.
Harold and Me
Harold and Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harold and Me write by Jann Robbins. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Harold and Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1982, after years of working in advertising in Oklahoma, Jann Stapp took a job as the personal assistant to the world's bestselling author, Harold Robbins. Like those he portrayed in his novels, Harold Robbins lived life hard, fast, and occasionally out-of-control. He was a larger-than-life figure, and he let those around him know it. Young Jann didn't know what she was walking into--but she loved every minute of it. Jann and Harold Robbins were married in 1992. Harold and Me is the chronicle of the last fifteen years of Harold Robbins' life. Harold was a natural storyteller and Jann absorbed his stories with awe and admiration. Just like his characters, his life was a rollercoaster ride of pride, drama, and intensity, and Jann tells his story--and theirs--with vividness and love. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Southern Masculinity
Southern Masculinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Masculinity write by Craig Thompson Friend. This book was released on 2010-01-25. Southern Masculinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography. After the Civil War, southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At the same time, manliness in the South--as understood by individuals and within communities--retained and transformed antebellum conceptions of honor and mastery. This collection examines masculinity with respect to Reconstruction, the New South, racism, southern womanhood, the Sunbelt, gay rights, and the rise of the Christian Right. Familiar figures such as Arthur Ashe are investigated from fresh angles, while other essays plumb new areas such as the womanless wedding and Cherokee masculinity.
