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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia by Stephen Fried (Paperback, 1994)
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At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval--and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character--and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-139780671701055
eBay Product ID (ePID)91357182
Product Key Features
Book TitleThing of Beauty: the Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
AuthorStephen Fried
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height175mm
Item Width111mm
Item Weight219g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorStephen Fried
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 29 Dec, 2020
Gia Carangi was beautiful and one of a kind!
I absolutely loved this book. I enjoyed reading about her life and many stories as told by her close friends and those who worked with her. Gia was a complicated woman but she was a free spirit, fun,interesting, unique she had a big heart and demons too. It's really sad that she died so young. Gia was a force of nature and that showed through her modelling but she had so much potential to go further and do more with her life.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
