The Resource Delayed rays of a star : a novel, Amanda Lee Koe
Delayed rays of a star : a novel, Amanda Lee Koe
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The item Delayed rays of a star : a novel, Amanda Lee Koe represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library.
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- Summary
- "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous--then, infamous. From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysée, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of ego, persona, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and raw, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a bold new literary voice"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 383 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385544344
- Label
- Delayed rays of a star : a novel
- Title
- Delayed rays of a star
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Amanda Lee Koe
- Subject
-
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Dietrich, Marlene -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Novels
- Racism -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Riefenstahl, Leni -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961 -- Fiction
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous--then, infamous. From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysée, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of ego, persona, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and raw, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a bold new literary voice"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1987-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lee Koe, Amanda
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9570.S53
- LC item number
- L393 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Wong, Anna May
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- Wong, Anna May
- Women
- Actresses
- Racism
- Betrayal
- Label
- Delayed rays of a star : a novel, Amanda Lee Koe
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 383 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385544344
- Lccn
- 2019004675
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1057305540
- (OCoLC)on1057305540
- Label
- Delayed rays of a star : a novel, Amanda Lee Koe
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 383 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385544344
- Lccn
- 2019004675
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1057305540
- (OCoLC)on1057305540
Subject
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Dietrich, Marlene -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Novels
- Racism -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Riefenstahl, Leni -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961 -- Fiction
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- Betrayal -- Fiction
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