Elizabeth

by Alexander Walker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.29

  Combining the resilience and resourcefullness of a born survivor with a distinctly destructive streak, Elizabeth Taylor has a compelling personality. This book explores Elizabeth's privileged yet tragically unsettled life. Using a variety of sources and drawing on conversations with Elizabeth Taylor herself, Alexander Walker provides an appraisal of her life and career so far.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.29

  Few celebrities today have led lives as packed with incident, crisis, scandal and achievement as Elizabeth Taylor. In this revised and updated edition Alexander Walker examines every aspect of Elizabeth's life: her privileged childhood in pre-war London; her swift rise to Hollywood stardom in films like National Velvet and the catastrophe-fraught epic Cleopatra; her six husbands; her passion to love and her need to be loved in return; her obsession with jewellery; her opulent lifestyle and the amazing resilience that has helped her survive not only condemnation for the most public adultery in history , but also dramatic illnesses that have taken her to the point of death. Stardom , says the author, is a damaged state. But the hurts - and the happiness - make a compelling story.