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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt Hardback - 2010

by Robert Gottlieb

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Gottlieb's "Sarah" is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. It brilliantly tracks the trajectory through which Sarah Bernhardt, 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.

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a riveting portrait of the great Sarah Bernhardt from acclaimed writer Robert Gottlieb

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.

Her family was also a source of curiosity: the mother she adored and who scorned her; her two half-sisters, who died young after lives of dissipation; and most of all, her son, Maurice, whom she worshiped and raised as an aristocrat, in the style appropriate to his presumed father, the Belgian Prince de Ligne. Only once did they quarrel--over the Dreyfus Affair. Maurice was a right-wing snob; Sarah, always proud of her Jewish heritage, was a passionate Dreyfusard and Zolaist.

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.

About Jewish Lives:

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent." -New York Times

"Exemplary." -Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished." -New Yorker

"Superb." -The Guardian

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  • Title Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
  • Author Robert Gottlieb
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 2010-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Deckle Edges, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300141276 / 0300141270
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.04 x 0.91 in (21.59 x 15.34 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Bernhardt, Sarah, Actresses - France - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010001900
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2010, Page 14
  • Books & Culture, 03/01/2011, Page 22
  • Choice, 04/01/2011, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/19/2010, Page 13
  • New Yorker (The), 09/27/2010, Page 87
  • Newsweek, 09/27/2010, Page 59
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0

About the author

Robert Gottlieb is the author of Lives and Letters, George Balanchine, and Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens. His career in publishing--as editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker--is legendary.

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