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Sister Stardust
Current price:
$26.99
Publication Date: April 5th, 2022
Publisher:
Hanover Square Press
ISBN:
9781335425782
Pages:
304
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Staff Reviews
Most of the reviews of this book focus on Jane Green's re-imagining the brief, tragic life of Tabitha Getty, the model, actress, & wife of oil heir Paul Getty, who died at the age of 30 of a possible heroin overdose. But Claire is the fictional focus reminiscing as a grown woman of her youth & friendship with Tabitha & being lured into a world heretofore unknownto her-- drugs and sex and rock & roll and the exotic environment of Marrakesh and the parasitic people tha travel with and around the wealthy. We watch Claire reinvent herself as she immerses herself in this world and how she immerses herself in this world and she is ultimately catapulted out of it. Fun, easy, breezy read!
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Melissa
It’s the ‘60s. There is sex, drugs, and rock and roll, all beautifully written in lush detail by the incomparable Jane Green, who has crafted her first work of biographical fiction about the life of Talitha Getty. It is pure perfection.
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Description
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK
In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a counterculture taking root across the world.
When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha Getty. Yearning for the adventure and independence, she's swept off to Marrakesh, where the two become kindred spirits. But beneath Talitha's glamourous facade lurks a darkness few can understand. As their friendship blossoms and the two grow closer, the realities of Talitha's precarious existence set off a chain of dangerous events that could alter Claire's life forever.
