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Trashy celebrity bios are usually diminished by the fact that we've already heard the stories about Lonnie and Burt, or Madonna and Sean, or whoever the current target is. Author Stephen Fried manages to get all the sleaze value plus a lot of surprises by choosing supermodel Gia Carangi as his topic. Although her face is widely recognized, Gia finished her modeling career in a blaze of heroin and disease just before the time when models became celebrities with name recognition. Her life is the perfect fodder for the exploitation market, but Fried goes beyond that with fluid prose and a reporter's nose for tracking down sources. His stories about her teenage years, with their mix of late nights in Philadelphia's gay clubs, manic worship, and glam-style imitation of David Bowie, as well as tales of Gia's ability to seduce her friends, male and female, are the product of a lot of work and make for very interesting reading. Gia's unabashed homosexuality and early death from AIDS make her story a palimpsest of life on the edge in the America of the 1980s.
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Charts international cover girl Gia Carangi's descent from $10,000-a-day modeling jobs to heroin addiction and death from AIDS at age 26. Photos.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Found this book for my wife.. order it and it was shipped quite quickly.. when the time comes i will buy here again
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Better than the movie,
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Anyone who has seen the movie Gia with Angelina Jolie might be expecting something a little more scandalous. This is what I appreciate about the book though, as it covers a lot of other things like the earlier part of Gia's life instead of focusing solely on the sex and drugs as the movie does. Easy read, overall enjoyable and very interesting!
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This story is completely absorbing. Gia's life was so interesting, out of the ordinary & so sad. This is the story of one of the most beautiful, daring, experimental, unafraid & unpredictable models of all time. It is also the story of a sad, emotionally injured girl who's life could have been wonderful but instead became a short trip to the grave.
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