Status
Available
Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015), Hardcover, 384 pages
Description
"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns,"--Novelist.
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2016)
Bisexual Book Award (Finalist — Memoir/Biography — 2015)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction — 2015)
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — 2016)
Language
Original publication date
2015
Physical description
384 p.
ISBN
0809094649 / 9780809094646
Local notes
biography
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