Binding: Hardcover
Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A Must - Read: The New York Times Book Review Nylon Star Tribune Ms. Kirkus Reviews The Bay Area Reporter Town & Country Inside Hook A monumental biography. Hilton Als The New Yorker A rich portrait of a glittering communal and bygone NYC and of the glamorous queer icon. Arimeta Diop Vanity Fair From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. You must always be yourself no matter what the price Don t dare destroy your passion for the sake of others. The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personi ed but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island lonely and quiet and queer she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York's early O - O - Broadway theater scene in Warhol's lms Flesh and Women in Revolt and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton posed for Richard Avedon and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play. Yet Candy lived on the edge relying on the kindness of strangers friends and her quietly devoted mother sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: I shall try to be grateful for life Cannot imagine who would want me. Candy died at twenty - nine in 1974, just as conversations about gender and identity were beginning to enter the broader culture. She never knew it but she changed the world. Brimming with all the zz and wildness of New York in the 1960s and 70s this is the rst biography of this extraordinary gure an unintentional pioneer who became an icon. Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling is packed with tales of luminaries gossip and meticulous research laced with Candy's words and her friends recollections and signals Candy's long - overdue return to the spotlight. Includes 16 pages of color photographs
Title: Candy Darling Dreamer Icon Superstar
Author(s): Carr Cynthia
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250066350
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 3/19/2024
Category: Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment