STEPHEN FRIED is a Senior Writer at Philadelphia Magazine, His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, and The Washington Post Magazine. A winner of a 1993 National Magazine Award, the Distinguished Service Award for Magazine Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Diane Ayres, a fiction writer.
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval—and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character—and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
Reading this book is like passing through a life which is unfuckingbelievably glamorous and tragic, with ups and downs, with hope and desperation. It gathers interviews and excerpts Gia's journal to narrate her life, along with the fashion history and drug ...
評分Reading this book is like passing through a life which is unfuckingbelievably glamorous and tragic, with ups and downs, with hope and desperation. It gathers interviews and excerpts Gia's journal to narrate her life, along with the fashion history and drug ...
評分Reading this book is like passing through a life which is unfuckingbelievably glamorous and tragic, with ups and downs, with hope and desperation. It gathers interviews and excerpts Gia's journal to narrate her life, along with the fashion history and drug ...
評分Reading this book is like passing through a life which is unfuckingbelievably glamorous and tragic, with ups and downs, with hope and desperation. It gathers interviews and excerpts Gia's journal to narrate her life, along with the fashion history and drug ...
評分Reading this book is like passing through a life which is unfuckingbelievably glamorous and tragic, with ups and downs, with hope and desperation. It gathers interviews and excerpts Gia's journal to narrate her life, along with the fashion history and drug ...
After I saw the HBO movie "Gia" I found myself yearning to know more about this woman's life. "Thing of Beauty" not only presents the real and compelling story of Gia from her troubled upper middle class adolescence in suburban Phillie to her rise as the "first supermodel" to her downfall to heroin, which led to her untimely death from AIDS, but is
评分God has a big plan for her but not in this life.
评分God has a big plan for her but not in this life.
评分看瞭 停瞭很多次也許因為真的感覺到pain 無法一直不停歇地從頭看到尾。 還要壓抑著情緒 告訴自己說Gia 已經不在瞭 也感受不到pain瞭
评分After I saw the HBO movie "Gia" I found myself yearning to know more about this woman's life. "Thing of Beauty" not only presents the real and compelling story of Gia from her troubled upper middle class adolescence in suburban Phillie to her rise as the "first supermodel" to her downfall to heroin, which led to her untimely death from AIDS, but is
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