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Delayed rays of a star : a novel
- Title
- Delayed rays of a star : a novel / Amanda Lee Koe.
- Author
- Lee Koe, Amanda, 1987-
- Publication
- New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-9543 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 383 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous--then, infamous. From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysée, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of ego, persona, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and raw, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a bold new literary voice"--
- Subjects
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961 > Fiction
- FICTION / Biographical
- Novels
- Fiction
- Betrayal > Fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Historical fiction
- Dietrich, Marlene > Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Racism > Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Riefenstahl, Leni > Fiction
- Actresses > Fiction
- Women > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9543
- ISBN
- 9780385544344
- 0385544340
- LCCN
- 2019004675
- OCLC
- 1057305540
- Author
- Lee Koe, Amanda, 1987- author.
- Title
- Delayed rays of a star : a novel / Amanda Lee Koe.
- Publisher
- New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lee Koe, Amanda, 1987- author. Delayed rays of a star First edition. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2019 9780385544351 (DLC) 2019013510
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9543