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008    190312s2019    nyua   e      000 1 eng   
010      2019004675 
020    9780385544344 (hardback) 
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082 00 823/.92|223 
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100 1  Lee Koe, Amanda,|d1987-|eauthor. 
245 10 Delayed rays of a star :|ba novel /|cAmanda Lee Koe. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bNan A. Talese, Doubleday,|c[2019] 
300    383 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the 
       photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very 
       different women together in one frame: up-and-coming 
       German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way 
       into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong,
       the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit 
       parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's 
       modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a 
       director would first make her famous--then, infamous. From
       this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star
       lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From 
       Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in 
       East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysée, 
       the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured
       as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, 
       each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the 
       orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese 
       immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North 
       Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and 
       viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own 
       time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry 
       prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions
       of ego, persona, complicity, desire, and difference. 
       Intimate and raw, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral 
       depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its 
       calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a 
       bold new literary voice"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Dietrich, Marlene|vFiction. 
600 10 Wong, Anna May,|d1905-1961|vFiction. 
600 10 Riefenstahl, Leni|vFiction. 
655  7 Biographical fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd