{"product_id":"delayed-rays-of-a-star","title":"Delayed Rays of a Star","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CrimeReads Historical Fiction Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The trajectories of these women's lives wind from Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from the Bavarian Alps to the Champs-Élysées, and the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. In the orbit of each star live secondary players whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left behind. Intimate and clear-eyed, this is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833703903437,"sku":"9780525564546","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_b3e47658-6018-4775-970e-43d2f2f84303.jpg?v=1790894420","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/delayed-rays-of-a-star","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}