Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1433385 in Books
• Published on: 1996-08-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .82" h x 5.07" w x 7.81" l, .42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 265 pages

From Library Journal
"Lambert has a sharp eye for the Hollywood and Bohemian New York milieus, a good ear for dialog, and a sensibility receptive to a wide gamut of unlikely people," said LJ's reviewer of this title (LJ 3/15/63). It follows the ups and downs and ups again of a teenage movie star who falls prey to the lure of sex and drugs but who ultimately gets back on track. The novel is spicier than the 1965 Natalie Wood film version.
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Armistead Maupin
"Decades before it was fashionable, Gavin Lambert expertly wove characters of every sexual stripe into his lustrous tapestries of Southern California life. Like his friend Christopher Isherwood, Lambert brought a foreigner's keen and curious eye to the vagaries of Lotusland. His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled."

From the Back Cover
A precocious teenager chronicles her own rise from trailer-camp squalor to singing stardom by way of a supermarket talent contest. In her journals, Daisy Clover tells the story of how she is discovered by a Hollywood movie producer at 14 and proceeds through large doses of work, sex and Benzedrine to a 24-hour marriage, a nervous breakdown, retirement, and finally obscurity in New York. A has-been before her late teens, she makes a vaudeville comeback in Atlantic City at the age of 24. A very campy, very funny look at the frenzy of late '50s Hollywood. The film version is frequently on cable very late atnight.