Crowned Heads by Thomas Tryon (1976)

Crowned Heads
by Thomas Tryon
Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book
Copyright:  1976
Book Club Edition

In a stunning departure from the moods, settings, and concerns of his bestselling novels, Thomas Tryon gives us Crowned Heads.

Here are four supreme film stars -- four fabulous interlocking lives that will stand as dramatic revelations of the incredible world whose unreal realities Tryon himself witnessed at first hand in his own years as a Hollywood star.

First, FEDORA.  "The Perfect World of Art" . . . Her enigma unriddled -- the greatest, the most beautiful, the longest reigning royalty of them all:  her career spanning the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties; her glorious face untouched by time.

LORNA.  "The All-American Cookie" -- sexy, appealing, climbing from cheapie gangster flicks to major roles; and slipping; most recently TV's Perkies Girl (Perkies Pop-Up Blueberry Tarts).  Many jobs behind her, many men, much trouble.  Now she has come to a secluded resort to find -- to heal -- herself . . .

BOBBITT.  For ten years "America's Fantasy Child," the adorable kiddie star of Bobbitt's Flying Carpet, Bobbitt's Lucky Day, etc., etc., etc. -- Top Box Office nationwide.  Now he is in his thirties, still adorable.  But today the Bobbitt movies don't even turn up on TV tot matinees.  And Bobbitt himself -- does he exist at all?

WILLIE.  For decades a worldwide symbol of elegance and wit.  Now he is alone in his showplace Hollywood villa -- his precious "Bee" dead, her ashes in a golden urn on the mantel -- mourning the past.  Until suddenly, fatally, with a knock on the door, the future breaks in . . .

Projecting these legendary lives with the magnified intensity of close-up, Tryon at once enthralls and convinces.  His Crowned Heads is a triumph of revelatory storytelling -- the most completely fascinating book we have yet had from the author of The Other, Harvest Home, and Lady.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover edges are rubbed and shows a bit of creasing.  Lightly discoloration on dust cover and pages.  Previous owner's "Library of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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