{"product_id":"miss-aluminum-a-memoir-9781250787392","title":"Miss Aluminum: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Aluminum\u003c\/i\u003e is Susanna Moore's revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai'i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects to live with her Irish grandmother in Philadelphia. She soon receives four trunks of expensive clothes from a concerned family friend, allowing her to assume the first of many disguises she will need to find her sometimes perilous, always valorous way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer journey takes her from New York to Los Angeles where she becomes a model and meets Joan Didion and Audrey Hepburn. She works as a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and is given a screen test by Mike Nichols. But beneath \u003ci\u003eMiss Aluminum\u003c\/i\u003e's glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girl's insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her mother's death. Moore gives us a sardonic, often humorous portrait of Hollywood in the seventies, and of a young woman's hard-won arrival at selfhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Susanna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSusanna Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Last Look\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whiteness of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Old Sweetheart\u003c\/i\u003e, and the nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eI Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParadise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Hawai'i and teaches at Princeton University.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528815972626,"sku":"9781250787392","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_109f3318-ff44-49eb-8695-4a2c7e82ff6c.jpg?v=1731336167","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/miss-aluminum-a-memoir-9781250787392","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}