Overview
At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her fatherās Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the worldās top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industryās standard of beauty.
But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her motherās approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS.
This āchilling taleā (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our societyās views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
This book title, Thing of Beauty (The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia), ISBN: 9781668050798, by Stephen Fried, published by Gallery Books (October 8, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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