Delayed Rays of a Star: Amanda Lee Koe

Koe, Amanda Lee

ISBN 10: 1526609029 / ISBN 13: 9781526609021

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs5862262570

Synopsis:

CHOSEN AS ONE OF 2019'S MOST ANTICIPATED TITLES FOR BY ELLE, THILLIST, USA TODAY, LITHUB, KIRKUS AND LA TIMES

'Ambitious and dazzling ... entertaining and thought-provoking too' Daily Mail

'Impressive' The Times

'Voraciously intelligent, heartrending ... Amanda Lee Koe is a brilliant writer' Garth Greenwell
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When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow.

Marlene crosses the Atlantic to find fame in Hollywood, the town that eats out of the palm of her hand till her wrinkles begin to show. After establishing her position as a filmmaker, Leni watches her fame turn to notoriety following the defeat of Nazi Germany. In 90 per cent of the films she appears in, the side characters played by Anna May must die so the white male lead can be returned to his white paramour on the screen. In the murky world these women navigate, their choices will be held up to the test of time. And the real question is, how much has anything changed?

This fierce and exquisite debut about womanhood, ambition, and art, played out against the shifting political tides of the twentieth century, introduces a mesmerizing new literary talent for our times.

About the Author:

Amanda Lee Koe was the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the recipient of Columbia University's Henfield Prize, and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize. Born in Singapore, she lives in New York. This is her first novel.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Delayed Rays of a Star: Amanda Lee Koe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good