Candy Darling
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- 199,00 kr
Publisher Description
This program is read by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond.
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook
“[A] monumental biography.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker
“A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer icon.” —Arimeta Diop, Vanity Fair
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.
Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.
Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play.
Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: “I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me." Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, as conversations about gender and identity were really just starting. She never knew it, but she changed the world.
Packed with tales of luminaries and gossip and meticulous research, immersive and laced with Candy’s words and her friends' recollections, Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling is Candy's long-overdue return to the spotlight.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Known as one of Andy Warhol’s “superstars,” transgender actress Candy Darling was beautiful, glamorous, and genuinely talented, appearing in mainstream movies like Jane Fonda’s Klute and co-starring in a Tennessee Williams play at the author’s request. But as journalist Cynthia Carr reveals in this fascinating biography, Candy’s success was set against a tragic and far-too-short life story. Even in the anything-goes atmosphere of 1960s Greenwich Village, Candy didn’t fit in. (A bouncer even had barred her from the Stonewall Inn shortly before the famous riots there kicked off the gay liberation movement.) Writing with full access to the late icon’s diaries, as well as years of interviews with intimates and acolytes, Carr has created the most well-rounded, engaging bio of the cult icon imaginable. And cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond narrates Candy Darling with all the necessary presence, wit, and tenderness.
