Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century
Author(s): Sam Kashner
A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the king and queen of Hollywood. Yet their two marriages to each other represented much more than outlandish romance. Together, Elizabeth and Richard were a fascinating embodiment of the mores and transgressions of their time and even luminaries like Jacqueline Kennedy looked to them as a barometer of the culture. The enduring glamour, grandeur, drama and bravado embodied in the couple gave rise to the type of rabid gossip and wide-eyed adoration that are the staples of today's media. Using brand-new research and interviews - including unique access to Taylor herself, the Burton family, and Taylor's extensive personal correspondence - this ultimate celebrity biography is the gripping real-life story of a fairy-tale couple whose lives were even grander and more outrageous than the epic films they made.
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'Taylor and Burton's famously lavish and tempestuous affair makes a fascinating story' The Sunday Times 20100704
Sam Kasher is author of three non-fiction books and one novel, Sinatraland and writes for Vanity Fair, Esquire and GQ. Nancy Schoenberger teaches creative writing and has written three books.
General Fields
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- : JR Books Ltd
- : JR Books Ltd
- : 24 July 2010
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sam Kashner
- : Hardback
- : 810
- : 791.430280922
- : 512
- : Illustrations