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Editorial: Blue Rider Press (edition First Edition), 2012
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N° de ref. del artículo 0399158197-8-18-29
- Título
- The Empty Glass
- Autor
- Baker, J.I.
- Editorial
- Blue Rider Press (edition First Edition)
- Año de publicación
- 2012
- Estado
- Very Good
- Sobrecubierta
- Sobrecubierta Incluida
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0399158197
- ISBN 13
- 9780399158193
- Edición
- First Edition.
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the most famous movie star in the world, now lying naked on her bed, still clutching the telephone. There, he discovers the starlet's so-called Book of SecretsMarilyn's diary, revealing a doomed relationship with a man she refers to only as The General. The deeper Ben reads into the diaryI hear clicking on the linethe deeper he finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy far bigger than he can imagine, and becomes the only person who may know the truth about Monroe's life and death. Ben uncovers information that reveals not only a relationship between Marilyn and the Kennedy brothers but information about the Bay of Pigs invasion, the U.S. government's involvement with the Mafia, the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro, the identity of a Soviet CIA mole, and (most significantly) a secret Monroe sex tape. Soon, the paranoid events in The Book of Secrets bleed into Ben's own life, and he finds himself, like Monroe, trapped in a deepening conspiracy. The investigation here is fiction, of coursebut the events surrounding the Monroe death (contradictory witness testimony, dual lividity on the corpse) are based entirely on fact. Most important, there were the photos taken of the night stand next to Marilyn's bed, where no water glass was found by initial investigatorsand when the second set of photos surfaced, more questions: the water service at Marilyn's house had been shut off the night before, so how did she manage to swallow the pills? With deft research and captivating prose, author Baker takes us inside the star's house on the day of her death, inside the coroner's office on the day of the autopsy, and inside long-defunct Los Angeles landmarks like the Ambassador Hotel, Peter Lawford's Pucini restaurant, and the fabled Hall of Justice. Along the way, we cross paths with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, and mobster Johnny Roselli. The Empty Glass is a heartbreaking, pulse-quickening novel that delves into one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century, and weaves a stunning narrative on American celebrity, politics, and power.
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James Ireland Baker is currently the executive editor of Conde Nast Traveler. Prior to that, he was development editor at Time Inc.; executive editor at Real Simple; Deputy Editor (in charge of celebrity coverage) at Glamour; senior editor at Us, and one of the founding editors of Time Out New York. His interviews with Clive Barker, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Thomas H. Cook, Jason Starr, Otto Penzler, Erik Larson, Mickey Spillane, David Lynch, David Cronenberg and others have been published in Time Out New York -- along with regular reviews of mystery and suspense books and movies -- since 1995. His journalism has also appeared in People. The Empty Glass is his first novel. Baker lives in Westchester County, New York.
J. I. Baker is the executive editor of Conde Nast Traveler, and a former development editor at Time Inc. He has also worked at Real Simple, Glamour, and US Weekly and is a founding editor of Time Out New York. This is his first novel.
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