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Book Launch: Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe in conversation with Ben Metcalf
17th July 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Book Launch: Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe in conversation with Ben Metcalf
A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women–Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl–cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century.
At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world’s first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father’s modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous–then, infamous.