Miss Aluminium
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Susanna Moore
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Susanna Moore
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ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' 100 BEST SUMMER READS OF 2020
At seventeen, Susanna Moore left her home in Hawai'i, with no money, no belongings and no prospects. But in Philadelphia, an unexpected gift of four trunks of beautiful clothes allowed her to assume the first of many disguises.
Her journey takes her from New York to Los Angeles where she becomes a model and meets Joan Didion and Audrey Hepburn. She works as a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and is given a screen test by Mike Nichols.
But beneath Miss Aluminium's glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girl's insatiable hunger to learn. Moore gives us a sardonic, often humorous portrait of Hollywood in the seventies and of a young woman's hard-won arrival at selfhood.
Critic Reviews
'It's hard to beat Susanna Moore's Miss Aluminium' Vogue
'A sharp-edged summery treat' Hadley Freeman
'Unlike any Hollywood memoir you'll have read' Metro
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- Kate
- 24-01-2022
I didn’t want this book to end
Thank you Susanna for such an honest telling of your life. After searching Joan Didion your book came up and I couldn’t resist the cover. So many aspects of this book struck a chord with me - the regret of not saving your Mother, the constant search for….?, 60s and 70s LA/Hollywood - a lifetime interest of mine. My first book for 2022, brilliant. Thank you.
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