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The Queen of Tuesday is a novel that blends truth and fiction to inform the story of Lucille Ball, probably the most iconic actresses in tv historical past. The narrative is framed across the creator’s personal private obsession with Lucille Ball, and his personal experiences rising up watching her on tv. The novel imagines a fictionalized relationship between Strauss’ grandfather, a Jewish businessman named David, and Lucille Ball. David meets Lucille whereas she’s nonetheless struggling to make it in Hollywood, and so they rapidly change into pals and lovers. As their relationship blossoms, David turns into a daily visitor on Lucille’s present, “I Love Lucy,” which turns into a cultural phenomenon.
The story is instructed by way of David’s perspective, as he navigates the ups and downs of his relationship with Lucille, and grapples together with his personal shortcomings as a husband and father. The novel additionally delves into bigger themes, such because the cultural significance of Lucille Ball’s legacy, and the challenges confronted by Jewish immigrants in America. The Queen of Tuesday is a touching and sometimes humorous tribute to Lucille Ball, and a meditation on the ability of celeb and the advanced relationships between public figures and their admirers.
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The Queen of Tuesday
- A Lucille Ball Story
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Darin Strauss
A Washington Publish Greatest Ebook of the 12 months : “A Splendid Technicolor of Mid-Twentieth Century America.” (Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The Nickel Boys)
This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit – that the creator’s grandfather could have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss gives a recent tackle a celeb America loves greater than anybody else.
Lucille Ball – probably the most highly effective lady in Hollywood historical past – was a part of America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owns extra studios than every other studio. She kind of single-handedly created the trendy TV enterprise. Nonetheless, Lucille’s off-camera life is in disarray. Whereas happening a cheerful marriage for hundreds of thousands, she suffered privately. Her companion can’t be trustworthy. She has struggled to steadiness her fame with the should be a mom, a artistic genius, an entrepreneur, and most of all, an icon.
The Queen of Tuesday — the follow-up to Half a Life by Strauss, winner of the Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle Award — blends truth and fiction, memoir and fiction, to think about the provocative story of a girl we thought we knew.
The story takes a very long time to lastly begin shifting; The writing fashion is great, however generally the creator will get caught up in his personal ego.
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