Liberace | Amanda Sthers

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LIBERACE

Amanda Sthers

Release date : 14/02/2013

Amanda Sthers invites Liberace to lie down on the couch and delves into the brilliant and little-known character of this virtuoso pianist, king of the floor show. More a novel than a biography, this book reveals a great deal about the author as well.
His name is not a household... Amanda Sthers invites Liberace to lie down on the couch and delves into the brilliant and little-known character of this virtuoso pianist, king of the floor show. More a novel than a biography, this book reveals a great deal about the author as well.
His name is not a household word in France, but Liberace was a star in America. Amanda Sthers has seized this unusual figure of such a singular destiny and found all the exuberant, poignant, sometimes painful material necessary to create a literary work that goes far beyond a simple biography. In seven imagined sessions on the psychoanalyst's couch, Liberace tells his life story in Amanda Sthers's words.
A virtuoso pianist, he was one of the first to have popularized classical music, playing Las Vegas and presenting his own television show to huge audiences. Before the wonder-struck eyes of old maids from Milwaukee who trembled at his every gesture, he stepped out of his limo, clad in spangles and mink, and played a furious boogie woogie. How could they not realize that this big softy in sparkly shorts was gay? Had they known that he had the face of his lover, Scott Thorson, thirty years his junior, done over to resemble his own when he was young! A portrait of Dorian Gray in flesh and blood? The myth of Narcissus incarnate? Making love to his own image? Searching for his long ago stillborn twin? Whatever his motivation, Liberace ultimately kicked him out, along with his clothes, in garbage sacks, and Thorson brought a sensational palimony suit against him. After a life led under the aegis of a castrating mother, bathed in the bright, artificial light that never really brought him fulfilment, Liberace was one of the first celebrities to succumb to AIDS.

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