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Laura Lamont's life in pictures

Fleeing her family home in Wisconsin in the wake of a tragedy that compels her to pursue her acting career in golden-age Hollywood, Elsa enjoys the heady extravagances of her fame while struggling to remain true to herself and balance the needs of her family.

Main Author: Straub, Emma.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Motion picture actors and actresses > Fiction.
Fame > Fiction.
Summary: Fleeing her family home in Wisconsin in the wake of a tragedy that compels her to pursue her acting career in golden-age Hollywood, Elsa enjoys the heady extravagances of her fame while struggling to remain true to herself and balance the needs of her family.
Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781594488450
1594488452
Author Notes: Emma Straub is an author, a bookseller, and a staff writer for Rookie. Her fiction and non-fiction works have been published in The Paris Review Daily, Time, and The New York Times. Her novels include Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, Other People We Married, The Vacationers and Modern Lovers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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