The Missing Person

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The missing person
DORIS GRUMBACH
Begin this daring növel and enter the Hollywood boom days, the thirties and forties. Talkies are no longer a novelty but an established phenomenon; a new breed of beautiful and talented actors has burst upon the scene, ready to steal the show.
But among these newcomers one is the undeniable star, the object of more heart-felt adulation, more loving attention than all the rest: Franny Fuller is this sexy, voluptuous actress whose whispery voice and glorious blond mane have aroused the fascination of every gossip columnist and moviegoer in the country.
Here is the story of the nation's number-one pinup, a story complete with agents, husbands, stand-ins, lavish homes and parties, millions of fans. And, of course, the raging ambitions. In the midst of it all is Franny, who somehow continues to be the frightened little girl from upstate New York. Perceived as a woman of radiant presence, she is really no more tangible than her image projected on... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The missing person
DORIS GRUMBACH
Begin this daring növel and enter the Hollywood boom days, the thirties and forties. Talkies are no longer a novelty but an established phenomenon; a new breed of beautiful and talented actors has burst upon the scene, ready to steal the show.
But among these newcomers one is the undeniable star, the object of more heart-felt adulation, more loving attention than all the rest: Franny Fuller is this sexy, voluptuous actress whose whispery voice and glorious blond mane have aroused the fascination of every gossip columnist and moviegoer in the country.
Here is the story of the nation's number-one pinup, a story complete with agents, husbands, stand-ins, lavish homes and parties, millions of fans. And, of course, the raging ambitions. In the midst of it all is Franny, who somehow continues to be the frightened little girl from upstate New York. Perceived as a woman of radiant presence, she is really no more tangible than her image projected on the silver screen.
Franny Fuller is revealed by the contours of her personality, defined by the ways in which others fit around her. What emerges is a composite of that
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unique creature of the Hollywood studio, a portrait of extraordinary public glamor and priváté misery.
Effusive outpourings of praise and admiration greeted the publication in 1979 of Chamber Music, Doris Grumbach's previous növel. She has written The Missing Person with equal grace and intelligence and taken the novelist's craft a bold step further. Her portrait of Franny Fuller alone repre-sents an astounding achievement. And she has framed it in a story that is astonishingly evocative, extremely moving, and utterly persuasive.
Doris Grumbach is one of the most respected literary critics in America. She writes a regular column for the New York Times Book Review and frequently contributes book reviews and critical articles to a number of other publications. Before Chamber Music, she published two other novels-The Spoil of the Flowers (1962) and The Short Throat, the Tender Mouth (1964) -and a literary biography of Mary McCarthy, The Company She Kept (1967). She lives in Washington, D.C. Vissza