
Thing of Beauty
The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
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Narrateur(s):
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Jonathan Todd Ross
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Auteur(s):
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Stephen Fried
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At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world's top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry's standard of beauty.
But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS.
This "chilling tale" (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this must-listen biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society's views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
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- Bunny Perno-Horne
- 2025-02-06
LONG, DRUGOUT, OFF ON TANGENTS
I was looking forward to this book. I was very disappointed. Perhaps a female narrator would have made it less painful a listen. Seemed confusing at times, went off on tangents that really had little to do with Gia's life. Ch15 was excruciating. 16 hrs to tell this story?? The Afterward even states the author didn't meet some of the people he wrote adnauseum about.
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