Publication

1988 - Coronet, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom

Language

English

Word Count

135,750 words, Guess

Page Count

543 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3570.R9
  • LCCPS3570.R9 A78 1986

Description

Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars—some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show—are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her coffin, Caine remembers Babe as she was: a dynamite beauty with secrets that could have burned Hollywood to the ground. In Babe and four other interlocking novellas, Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood’s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. Charlie Caine knows where cinema’s bodies are buried, and he’s anxious to start digging.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • All that glittersCoronet1988-01-01

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