Secret Life of the Lonely Doll The Search for Dare Wright

Name: Secret Life of the Lonely Doll The Search for Dare Wright
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ISBN: 9780312424923

ISBN-10: 0312424922

ISBN-13: 9780312424923

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jean Nathan

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In 1957, a children’s book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book--and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together Dare Wright’s bizarre life of glamour and painful isolation to create this…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English