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Candy Darling : dreamer, icon, superstar / Cynthia Carr.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.D2816 C37 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Cynthia, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darling, Candy, 1944-1974.
- Darling, Candy.
- Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987--Friends and associates.
- Warhol, Andy.
- Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Trans people--United States--Biography.
- Trans people.
- Friendship.
- Transgender people.
- United States.
- Trans women.
- LGBTQ+ actors.
- Queer people.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies
- Transgender biographies.
- Queer biographies.
- LGBTQ+ biographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Dreamer, icon, superstar
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
- Summary:
- Brimming with all the fizz and wildness of New York in the 1960s and '70s, this is the first biography of Candy Darling, an extraordinary figure, and an unintentional pioneer who became an icon.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "You sure you're not a girl?"
- The double life
- In the chrysalis
- Candyland
- Some glamour, some glory
- The last superstars
- Almost
- Star trip
- Just revolting
- Vain Victory
- A glittering facade
- Stardusk
- A diamond-shaped heart
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781250066350
- 1250066352
- OCLC:
- 1375537225
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