Frank & Ava
In Love and War
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
August 31, 2015
Veteran editor and author Brady (Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater) approaches the love-hate history of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner with reliable thoroughness. He reveals his sources for each chapter, promising that “no scenes or conversations are fabricated,” and an impressive bibliography shows the depth of his research. These resources build an unusually blunt, absorbing portrait of “the Voice,” whose disdain for others was often jaw-dropping. Sinatra gave Buddy Rich $25,000 to fund his own band so he’d be free to dally with the drummer’s wife, and had an affair with Lauren Bacall while Humphrey Bogart, her husband and Sinatra’s friend, was dying. Brady refrains from coming to his own conclusions about Sinatra, letting other voices speak. Wilfried Sheed is quoted as saying Sinatra was “doing what practically every man in America at least wanted to do—cheating on his wife and chasing after Ava Gardner.” The repeated ups and downs of the Sinatra-Gardner relationship and careers become tiresome, but Brady knows how to keep readers turning pages all the way to the end of Sinatra’s career, when everything that he had collected was sold at auction. Anyone remotely curious about either of these larger-than-life characters will want to read Brady’s book. Agent: Julia Lord, Julia Lord Literary.
September 15, 2015
There has always been a gloss surrounding Old Hollywood that has protected the celebrities from that era, turning them from mere mortals into gods and goddesses not bound by the strict morals of their time (as long as they were discreet about it). Two of the brightest stars in this galaxy were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, and their roller-coaster love affair, while legendary, has never been deeply explored until now. Brady (The Craft of the Screenwriter) follows the story of Gardner and Sinatra from their first encounters in Hollywood in the 1940s until their last communications before Gardner's death in 1990. Brady reveals the human side of a grand love affair that somehow survived a marriage and a divorce, epic battles, and sweeping romantic gestures. What started as an extramarital affair became a connection between two very human people that lasted the rest of their lives. VERDICT This honest and contemporary look at an almost mythical couple is a quick-paced and poignant tale that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers. [See Prepub Alert, 4/6/15.]--Teri Shiel, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr. Lib., Farmington
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May 1, 2015
Brady was working at Reprise Records in the 1970s when he met Sinatra, as well as other artists he interviewed to chronicle Sinatra's notorious relationship with second wife Ava Gardner.
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