Inside Daisy Clover

by Gavin Lambert

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A precocious teenager chronicles her own rise from trailer-park squalor to singing stardom by way of a supermarket talent contest. In her journals, Daisy Clover tells the story of how she is discovered by a hollywood movie producer at fourteen and proceeds through large doses of work, sex and Benzedrine to a twenty-four-hour marriage, a nervous breakdown, retirement and finally obscurity in New York. A has-been before her late teens, she makes a vaudeville comeback in Atlantic City at the show more age of twenty-four. show less

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Gavin Lambert is the author of seven novels, five works of nonfiction, a and many screenplays. Gavin Lambert lived in Tangier for fourteen years and now resides in Los Angeles

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Canonical title
Inside Daisy Clover
Original publication date
1965
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Inside Daisy Clover (1965 | IMDb)
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3562 .A44 .I57Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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