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Last girl before freeway the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers

"Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feu...

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Main Author: Bennetts, Leslie, 1949- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Hays, Sara Light tribute.
Rivers, Joan.
Comedians > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Summary: "Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition and her massive insecurities. But Rivers' career was also hugely significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life."--Amazon.com.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: ix, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0316261300
9780316261302
Author Notes: Leslie Bennetts is the author of the national bestseller The Feminine Mistake as well as a longtime Vanity Fair writer and former New York Times reporter. At Vanity Fair she wrote many movie star cover stories in addition to articles on subjects ranging from priest pedophilia to U.S. antiterrorism policy, and she was the first woman ever to cover a presidential campaign at the New York Times. Bennetts has also written for many other magazines, including New York , Vogue , More , The Nation , and Glamour .

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