3 records matched your query
03391aam a2200517 i 4500 001 61B6DFA6AD0F11E98C46566A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190723010101 008 190312s2019 nyua 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019004675 020 $a 0385544340 020 $a 9780385544344 (hardback) : 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NjBwBT $d NvReBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR9570.S53 $b L393 2019 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Lee, Amanda Koe, $d 1987- $e author. 245 10 $a Delayed rays of a star : $b a novel / $c Amanda Lee Koe. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, $c [2019] 300 $a 383 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soireÌe 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-EÌlyseÌe, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dietrich, Marlene $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Wong, Anna May, $d 1905-1961 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Riefenstahl, Leni $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Biographical fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lee, Amanda Koe, 1987- $t Delayed rays of a star $b First edition. $d New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2019 $z 9780385544351 $w (DLC) 2019013510 941 $a 16 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515011106.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409033535.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013847.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518023238.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030135.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011352.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20200707012943.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529021335.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20200310040847.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204094920.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110081404.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103023611.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211013716.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20190912031040.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190824012514.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190808011209.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61B6DFA6AD0F11E98C46566A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search