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Thing of Beauty

Thing of Beauty( )
Author: Fried, Stephen
ISBN:978-0-671-70105-5
Publication Date:Jun 1994
Publisher:Pocket Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.99
Book Description:

The "vivid...exhaustive" (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi. 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...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.188 x 6.75 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:0.615 Pounds
Author Biography
Fried, Stephen (Author)
Stephen Fried is a journalist and author. His books include Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West-One Meal at a Time, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, The New Rabbi, and Husbandry. He and Patrick J. Kennedy wrote A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction. He won the National Magazine Award twice and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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