Garbo

Garbo
Robert Gottlieb
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Hardback
h232 x 156mm - 448pg
7 Dec 2021 US
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9780374298357
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"Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941," Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, "Greta Garbo is in people' s minds, hearts, and dreams. " Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in this short time, to infiltrate the world' s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. She was a phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but she was also a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naive, and always on her guard. In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her struggle to elude the attention of the world. He takes us through the films themselves, from her several European features to M-G-M' s early melodramas to the artistic heights of Camille and Ninotchka. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New York-"a hermit about town"-and the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. In addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls "A Garbo Reader," brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo from other people' s memoirs and interviews. Most extraordinary of all are the pictures-more than 250 of them, all reproduced here in superb duotone. Garbo is a biography of remarkable insight and breadth, written in the hope of capturing the woman only the camera really knew.
[An] ardent and wise investigative portrait . . . Once Garbo steps in front of the camera, Gottlieb' s book comes gloriously into its own, a tour through a career offered by a shrewd, deeply perceptive docent, brimming with knowledge and insight . . . This is what we want film books to do--to send us to the work with sharper eyes and more open minds. --Mark Harris, The New York Times Book ReviewMuch has been written about Garbo over the years, but Gottlieb, a former editor of this magazine, has produced a particularly charming, companionable, and clear-eyed guide to her life and work . . . By the end of the biography, I felt I understood Garbo better as a person, without the aura of mystery around her having been entirely dispelled--and, at this point, who would want it to be? --Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker[Garbo] is great fun to read, providing a chatty, urbane overview and a lot of unabashed opinions. --Donna Rifkind, The Wall Street JournalThe why and wherefore of [Garbo' s] extraordinary life and career is masterfully told in Robert Gottlieb' s new book, Garbo, handsomely published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with more than 250 splendid duotone photos, an extremely thorough filmography (including, unusually, production costs and shooting schedules, box-office grosses, profits, and losses)--all part of a terrific 100-page "Garbo Reader," which concludes the volume and harks back to Gottlieb' s influential days as editor of The New Yorker, editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, and head of Alfred A. Knopf. --Peter Bogdanovich, Air MailA classic movie lover' s dream . . . Enriching his insightful reconsideration of Garbo' s life and career are wonderful photos, a selection of essays from the past, and anecdotes from those who encountered the enigmatic star . . . [Gottlieb] brings to life Garbo' s time and place--particularly Europe, Hollywood and America between world wars--and fills her story with other unique characters. It' s fascinating from beginning to end. --Douglass K. Daniel, Associated PressA lively new appraisal of [Garbo' s] life and films . . . Gottlieb seems for this project to have consumed everything written in English about Garbo and her circle. --The Boston Globe[An] astute and entertaining book. --The Economist[A] searching and sensitive portrait of the actor . . . [A] perfectly paced account . . . [A] masterful look at an elusive Hollywood giant. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)Gottlieb delivers a nuanced portrait of Swedish-born actor Greta Garbo . . . A searching life study that ought to rekindle interest in an unhappy yet brilliant artist. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)This comprehensive biography may be the final word [on Garbo] . . . Gottlieb' s research is so complete and his style so engaging that this book almost reads like an oral biography told through a singular voice . . . A brilliantly written and constructed portrait of a true icon of the cinema. --Library Journal (starred review)
Robert Gottlieb has been the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the head of Alfred A. Knopf, and the editor of The New Yorker. He has contributed frequently to The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books and is the author of Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, and Avid Reader: A Life. In 2015, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780374298357
Published: 7 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardback
Height: 232mm
Width: 156mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 448

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