Grace Kelly

"The third volume in a trilogy exploring the life and work of the legendary director examines Hitchcock's life in terms of his relationships with the actresses in his films, including Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, and Tippi Hedren, in a study of his films, rise to fame and power, artistic legacy, unconventional marriage, and obsessions."

This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in my checkered life I hope my grandkids and/or readers would learn from my knocks in life, and how I overcame my nerve wrecking and dilapidating days of my scuffle with Lady death on more than two occasions. I am thankful to Lady Luck plus my attitude, and character built at childhood. Remember we have two ears and one mouth, use them as such. Guard your tongue,...

Es un libro que no puede faltar en ninguna casa. No es nada feminista, es solo femenino. Abre un mundo todavía desconocido. Delinea personajes, da vida a las caras. Con una rica tableta pinta las protagonistas que se alternan, de vez en cuando los destinos de ellos se cruzan, de vez en cuando los dramas son similares. La fuerza de las palabras y de los pensamientos hace aparecer sobre la cena la pasión por el arte. La pasión en la vida, la pasión de la inspiración. Dibuja encuentro con la realidad universal y delinea la importancia de la sensualidad, del dolor, del amor, de la familia,...

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos puede ser calificado de libro de arte, ya que pretende exponer las actividades de patrocinio y mecenazgo del rey consorte Francisco de Asís de Borbón (1822-1902) durante sus veintidós años de reinado (1846-1868), en arquitectura, pintura, escultura y artes suntuarias. El lector quedará sorprendido por el elevado número de artistas que tuvieron vinculación con el rey consorte. No obstante, en ocasiones será inevitable, para una mejor comprensión del contexto en el que nos movemos, hacer alusión a acontecimientos de índole política, incluso...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...