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Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevardāinflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Touretteās syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellmanās habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Our Thelma Ritterāish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine āMiss Kathieā Kentonāveteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathieās heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathieās death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellmanāpenned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fansāand for posterity.
Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. Itās wild, itās wicked, itās bold-facedāitās vintage Chuck.
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May 4, 2010 -
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- ISBN: 9780385533171
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- ISBN: 9780385533171
- File size: 2092 KB
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- English
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