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The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story

The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story

Strauss, Darin

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ISBN10: 0812982576
ISBN13: 9780812982572
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: May 25 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Lucille Ball, Hollywood's first true media mogul, stars in this bold (The Boston Globe), boisterous novel (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart--from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.--Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys

This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit--that the author's grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other.

Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--was part of America's first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille's off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn't stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.

The Queen of Tuesday--Strauss's follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award--mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.

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