Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb
“A fascinating look at Bernhardt’’s mythology and the stagecraft behind it. . . . What Sarah understood–as Gottlieb, a storied editor and publisher makes clear–was how the heightened drama of performance might be extended to her own life.”–Vogue
Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career-redefining the very nature of her art-to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour.
Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, Gottlieb’s Sarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate-and scandalous-daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France
$16.50 Publisher: Yale University Press; First Printing edition (September 21, 2010) Amazon.com
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