The Queen of Tuesday by Darin Strauss

The Queen of Tuesday by Darin Strauss

A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.--Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life, a new novel about Lucille Ball, a thrilling love story starring Hollywood's first true media mogul.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit--that the author's grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other.

Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--was part of America's first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille's off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn't stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.

The Queen of Tuesday--Strauss's follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award--mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.

Darin Strauss is a best-selling American author whose work has won multiple accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many others. Half a Life, a memoir/autobiography by Strauss, earned the 2011 NBCC Prize for memoir/autobiography.

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ISBN 13	9780812992762
ISBN 10	0812992768
Title	The Queen of Tuesday
Author	Darin Strauss
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-08-18
Number of pages	336
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