Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
A True Love Story
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نقد و بررسی
January 1, 1987
Turner recalls the dying days of the late Gloria Grahame, a movie actress who had some success in the '50s and '60s, winning an Oscar for her performance in The Bad and the Beautiful. In England in 1981 to appear in a play, Grahame reached the terminal stage of stomach cancer and called on Turner, her ex-lover, for support. He took her to his parents' home in Liverpool, where her condition continued to deteriorate; along with being a food faddist, she was so distrusting of doctors that she would not enter a hospital. Eventually Turner contacted two of her children, who went to England and flew her to New York, wher she died. As a picture of a caring lower-middle-class British family, willing to make great sacrifices to help a stranger, the story is heartwarming, but there is little else to recommend it.
In this utterly confusing memoir, author Peter Turner tells the story of the final ailing years of his one-time love interest, Gloria Grahame, a film noir actress of some note. Although Turner's and his family's kindness to a near-stranger is heartwarming, the narrative contains seemingly unending dialogue without much background in the form of narrative. Despite narrator Peter Kenny's expertise, the sharing of only who said what, where, and when does not tell a clear story. With his bright, friendly style and attempts to characterize the female voices, Kenny tries unsuccessfully to sort things out sufficiently for an entertaining listening experience. A film of this work is to be released in November 2017. W.A.G. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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