I'll Cry Tomorrow
by Lillian Roth
Taste attributes: biographydocumentarydramafresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosionhuman spirit/resilience/survivalinjustice/tragedy/vengeance
Boxlist takeA grounded, stirring biography: small-scale and weighty. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
About This Book
THE GREAT BESTSELLER OF THIS CENTURY! The brutally frank story! Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. An awe inspiring and thought provoking book!
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- Author
- Lillian Roth
- Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 292
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- Open Library
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