The Private Life of Axie Reed

John Knowles

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: E.P. Dutton, 1986

0525244034 / 9780525244035

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234 pages. At the height of her fame, Axie Reed, after suffering a severe accident, lays in the hospital on the edge of death drifting fitfully yet insightfully over he r career and private life Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly This is a t hin, disappointing story by the author of A Separate Peace, which has remained i n print for over 25 years. Knowles's heroine, Alexandra (Axie) Reed, a stage and screen star, makes headlines at age 50 after a fall leaves her gravely injured. Axie's young cousin and purported biographer, Nick Reed, is the narrator, stayi ng at her Long Island home with others who adore the actress and await word from the hospital on her condition. Nick muses over Axie's relationships with those present: her ex-husband, Lambros Talouris, arriving from the Greek island where the marriage began and ended; his brother Spyro, Axie's lifelong friend; her man ager and former lover Douglas Shore. While they discuss plans for caring for Axi e during her convalescence, she is deciding whether she will fight to live or, f or reasons left unclear, ensure her own death. Presented as impossibly perfect, Axie is not convincing; nor are the other characters. Only Knowles's ambient des criptions of the Greek island and of Axie's sanctuary in the Hamptons pique one' s interest. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journa l Knowles proposes to tell his readers what would happen at the Parrish Art Muse um Ball in Southhampton, Long Island, in the Summer of 1981. To wit, one Axie Re ed, the most WASPish actress since Hepburn struck poses in The Philadelphia Stor y , waltzes off a raised dance floor and does serious injury to herself. She spe nds the rest of this mercifully short novel in a hospital bed, reminiscing on he. …

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Titolo
The Private Life of Axie Reed
Autore
John Knowles
Editore
E.P. Dutton
Anno di pubblicazione
1986
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0525244034
ISBN 13
9780525244035
Dimensioni
50.8cm x 50.8cm x 50.8cm
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