Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

Name: Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Emma Straub
ISBN: 9781666595727

Author: Emma Straub

Narrator: Molly Ringwald

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/04/2012

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women

Synopsis

In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and 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, acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. 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 and renames her Laura Lamont. 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.

About Emma Straub

Emma Straub is from New York City. She is the author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures and Other People We Married, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Vogue, Tin House, The New York Times, and the The Paris Review Daily. She is a staff writer for Rookie. Straub lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.

About Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald began her film career with her Golden Globe nominated performance in The Tempest. Her extensive film credits include most notably, the iconic coming-of-age Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. Molly starred in the Broadway production of Cabaret, the Tony-nominated production of Enchanted April, and can currently be seen on television starring in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She lives with her husband and three children in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oriana

This is all Donna Tartt's fault. As with The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, I wish I wish I wish I'd read this book before I read The Goldfinch. Seriously you guys, that fucking book is so good that it makes everything else seem like bullshit. I mean, I was excited about this book for a long time! Emma......more

Goodreads review by Candace

I had such great hopes for this book. I heard Emma Straub on NPR talking about the book, realized she was Peter Straub's daughter (who doesn't love Peter Straub??), and I liked the subject matter. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. The book is told soley through the point of view of......more

Goodreads review by Edan

I can't really judge this novel objectively as the author is a dear friend of mine. We were in our nonfiction workshop at Oberlin together! I attended her Russian Nightclub house party! We've double-dated! Emma and I got reacquainted a few years ago, after college, and found we had much in common, p......more