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Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures
Emma Straub
Riverhead Hardcover
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 1594488452
EAN: 9781594488450
Kindle: B0085DOK4Q
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The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a
family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during
Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three
sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her
family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and more than
anything, Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks
up the approval of her father and the embrace of the
audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting
becomes more than a child¹s game of pretend. While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los
Angeles. There she is discovered by Irving Green, one of the
most powerful executives in Hollywood, who refashions her as
a serious, exotic brunette and renames her Laura Lamont.
Irving becomes Laura’s great love; she becomes an Academy
Award-winning actress—and a genuine movie star. Laura
experiences all the glamour and extravagance of the heady
pinnacle of stardom in the studio-system era, but ultimately
her story is a timeless one of a woman trying to balance
career, family, and personal happiness, all while remaining
true to herself. Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont’s Life in
Pictures is as intimate—and as bigger-than-life—as the great
films of the golden age of Hollywood. Written with warmth
and verve, it confirms Emma Straub’s reputation as one of
the most exciting new talents in fiction.
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