Ava gardner biography book
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
"[Makes] you feel as if you're eavesdropping. . . . Watching this Venus ply her mind games, sensuality and stubborn will on [her coauthor, Peter] Evans, it's easy to imagine what it was like to be a love object jerked on her marionette strings in her prime. You wouldn't have a chance."
– Maureen Dowd, The New York Times Book Review
“I read Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations in a delirious gulp. It is absolutely terrific. I couldn’t put it down. Gardner comes across as a flamboyant but tragic figure who always spoke the truth no matter how painful. And the way writer Peter Evans has shaped their conversations is truly remarkable.”
– Patricia Bosworth, author of Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
“Jaw-dropping anecdotes about film legends and the studio system in its heyday make this an irresistible read. . . . Gardner is funny and frank, and Evans's diligence makes the book not only one of the more revealing celebrity a
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Ava: My Story
This story started out strong. I especially liked the natural, southern slangy way Ava Gardner described her upbringing in rural North Carolina ("Honey, let me tell ya"). Her home town fryst vatten near my father's and he had a crush on Ava Gardner growing up. inom thought when I finished the book I'd give it to him to read.
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Ava seems to have a rare talent for combining beauty and class with a foul öppning and raunchy life style. However, inom doubt if hers fryst vatten an atypical Hollywood story.
She liked to drink, got into several passionate love affairs, including with Frank Sinatra, whom she considered the love of her life. They eventually married but just couldn't stop fighting.
It was strange. She had no problem cheating with other wives' hu
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
book by Peter Evans
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations is a biography of Hollywood legend Ava Gardner written by British journalist Peter Evans and published by Simon & Schuster in The book is based on conversations Evans had with Gardner between and Though Gardner initially invited Evans to write her autobiography, they had a falling out, and she fired him. Evans eventually secured the rights to publish their conversations, and worked on the book before his death in The book uses their conversations, with supplemental material from interviews Evans conducted with other people who knew Gardner.
Background
[edit]In the first week of January , Ava Gardner asked me to ghost her memoirs.
—&#;Peter Evans, Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations ()
Gardner invited Evans to ghostwrite her autobiography in [1] Evans interviewed Gardner face to face on several occasions, and they also had frequent phone conversations.