Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Hepburn—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. With a colorful cast of characters including...
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Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Hepburn—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, “Moon River” composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the early sixties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061774164 (0061774162)
ASIN: 61774162
Publish date: August 30th 2011
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
American,
Culture,
Film,
Biography Memoir,
Pop Culture
Oh!, oh, my, that Little Black Dress! While some would enjoy this book because they like movie-making, or Audrey Hepburn, or the book [b:Breakfast at Tiffany's|251688|Breakfast at Tiffany's|Truman Capote|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348380967s/251688.jpg|2518209], for me, the best part of this book...
If you love the Breakfast at Tffany's movie you will definitely enjoy this book!
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