ADVANCE PRAISE: “If you thought Louise Brooks’ own Lulu in Hollywood told the whole story – even the real story – you might be wrong. Because Samuel Bernstein’s Lulu is Lulu uncensored: a 'true life novel' of how Louise became Lulu, a screen siren with a brain and a G-spot. From old Hollywood to pre-Nazi Berlin, Bernstein goes off script in the most tantalizing way. If G. W. Pabst’s 'lost girl' were around today to read this book, I have a sneaking suspicion she just might say, 'Now why didn’t I think of that?'”—Kim Powers, bestselling author of Capote in Kansas and The History of Swimming
A NEW NOVEL
BY SAMUEL BERNSTEIN
She was the laughing girl with the black helmet of hair and the sexy bangs… The new novel Lulu finds film star Louise Brooks in 1928 Berlin playing the role of her life: A childlike woman named Lulu, whose sexual desires destroy her, and destroy the men in her life as well. Actress and character became joyfully, hopelessly enmeshed in work that blends fiction with non-fiction.
Her volatile relationship with her director is at the center of the book as she grapples with trying to make sense of her life. It's a modern tale of what it means to be a woman, an actress, and a sexual being.
In life, Louise Brooks was rarely able to balance these elements — a problem hardly unique to her time. Brilliant people with enormous promise still often soar brightly, then crash and burn. It came too little, and far too late, when Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque Française declared decades later, “There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!”
ADVANCE PRAISE: “In his follow up to the wonderful Mr. Confidential Samuel Bernstein brilliantly brings actress Louise Brooks to life in this evocative non-fiction novel that blends both fact and fiction in a way that will keep readers turning pages and begging for more.”—Julie Kenner, bestselling author of Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom and The Prada Paradox
ADVANCE PRAISE: “This is like a scandalous Jackie Collins novel set in the 1920's, but written with the sophisticated wit of a man who in a past life, was surely there to see it all. It makes for a book you simply can't put down. And why would you?”—Karen McCullah Lutz, bestselling author of The Bachelorette Party and screenwriter of Legally Blonde, The House Bunny, and The Ugly TruthWINNER!
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