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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 - Edward Sorel

Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

By Edward Sorel

  • Release Date: 2016-10-04
  • Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Score: 4.5
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From 31 Ratings

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A hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood by legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel.

In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel tore away layer after layer of linoleum from the floor of his $97-a-month Manhattan apartment until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood starring the actress Mary Astor—and the journal in which she detailed her numerous affairs. Thus began a half-century obsession that reached its peak in Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, “a thoroughly charming” (New York Times Book Review, front-page review) account of the scandal in which Sorel narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside his own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse. Now in a stunning paperback, featuring more than sixty ribald and rapturous original illustrations, Mary Astor’s Purple Diary is the life’s masterpiece of one of America’s greatest illustrators.

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  • Mary Astor's Purple Diary

    5
    By Julehaynes
    Great,quick, read, enjoyed it.

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