Mirror, mirror, Paula Byrne
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Mirror, mirror, Paula Byrne
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eng
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no index present
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fiction
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Mirror, mirror
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Paula Byrne
Summary
She was the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the glamour of Los Angeles. She becomes a superstar of the silver screen and Hollywood's darling, but nothing perfect lasts forever. The cost of beauty is always high, for those who have it and those who live in its shadow. The weight falls on her daughter to untangle the complicated truths of being ordinary beside an extraordinary mother, a woman who has bent and broken and skewed her perception of reality, a woman adored by the world, but from whom her daughter longs to escape. Evocative and deeply moving, Mirror, Mirror is based on Marlene Dietrich's glittering life, a dramatic novel set in Hollywood's golden age, that tells the story of mothers and daughters and of time's war against beauty - and the unbearable pain of a woman when beauty is the only game in town
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- Dietrich, Marlene -- Fiction
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fame -- Fiction
- Singers -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Germany -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Children of celebrities -- United States -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Singers -- Germany -- Fiction
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- Subject14
- Dietrich, Marlene -- Fiction
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fame -- Fiction
- Singers -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Germany -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Children of celebrities -- United States -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Singers -- Germany -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1