West of Eden

Resumen del libro

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios - from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985).

West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties - 'the rotten heart of paradise'. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it's a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it's built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it's also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Jean Steinx{0026}lt;/strong (1934-2017) fue editora de las revistas The Paris Review y Grand Street. Publicó x{0026}lt;em American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy,x{0026}lt;/em una historia oral de la vida del político, y, en colaboración con George Plimpton, x{0026}lt;em Edie: American Girl,x{0026}lt;/em biografía de la musa de Warhol. Un año después de la aparición de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Al oeste del Edén,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong en el que trabajó durante más de dos décadas, se suicidó, lanzándose al vacío desde su apartamento en un rascacielos de Manhattan. Tenía ochenta y tres años.x{0026}lt;/p