《Natasha:The Biography of Natalie Wood》是2002年4月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Suzanne Finstad。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Natasha:The Biography of Natalie Wood
- 作者：Suzanne Finstad
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780609809570
內容簡介
Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this wastrue. A superstitious Russian immigrant who claimed to be royalty,Maria had been told by a gypsy, long before little NatashaZakharenko's birth, that her second child would be famousthroughout the world. When the beautiful child with the hypnoticeyes was first placed in Maria's arms, she knew the prophecy wouldbecome true and proceeded to do everything in her power —everything — to make sure of it.
Natasha is the haunting story of a vulnerable and talentedactress whom many of us felt we knew. We watched her mature on themovie screen before our eyes — in Miracle on 34th Street, RebelWithout a Cause, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, and on andon. She has been hailed — along with Marilyn Monroe and ElizabethTaylor — as one of the top three female movie stars in the historyof film, making her a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. Butthe story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was like whenthe doors of the soundstages closed, has long been obscured.
Natasha is based on years of exhaustive research into Natalie'sturbulent life and mysterious drowning in the dark water that washer greatest fear. Author Suzanne Finstad, a former lawyer,conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie's family,close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtuallyeveryone connected with the investigation of her strange death.Through these firsthand accounts from many who have never spokenpublicly before, Finstad has reconstructed a life of emotionalabuse and exploitation, of almost unprecedented fame, greatloneliness, poignancy, and loss. She sheds an unwavering light onNatalie's complex relationships with James Dean, Elvis Presley,Frank Sinatra, Raymond Burr, Warren Beatty, and Robert Wagner andreveals the two lost loves of Natalie's life, whom her controllingmother prevented her from marrying. Finstad tells this beauty'sheartbreaking story with sensitivity and grace, revealing a complexand conflicting mix of fragility and strength in a woman who wasswept along by forces few could have resisted. Natasha isimpossible to put down — it is the definitive biography of NatalieWood that we've long been waiting for.
