Big Red : A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0857305247
ISBN-13
9780857305244
Publisher
Bedford Square Publishers
Imprint
No Exit Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2022
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
276 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 20.00 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Historical fiction
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Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike....
Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood''s Golden Age, Big Red re-envisions the life of one of America''s most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With narrator Rusty Redburn - a feisty second-string gossip columnist from Kalamazoo tasked with spying on Hayworth by Columbia movie mogul Harry ''The Janitor'' Cohn - as our guide, we follow the meteoric rise and heartrending demise of the actress, encountering her exploitative father, Eduardo; her controlling husband, ''boy genius'' Orson Welles; and notorious journalist Louella Parsons, among many others. Mixing his trademark screwball comedy and unerring tragedy, Jerome Charyn, with his ''polymorphous imagination'' (Jonathan Lethem) reanimates film classics such as Cover Girl, Gilda, and The Lady from Shanghai. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike.
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