Publisher's Synopsis
Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged.In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in lifefigures as diverse as Frances Farmer and Brittany Murphy, Jayne Mansfield and Dana Plato, Jean Harlow and Sharon Tate, Heather ORourke and Dominique Dunne and Marilyn Monroe. Their stories invite us behind the eyes of a centurys worth of women, the adored and the disappeared.
