Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
(Sprache: Englisch)
"New York City, 1938. Gloria Downing is done with lies. Eager to distance herself from a family scandal, what she needs is a total makeover and a friend she can lean on--and into her path walks a young, idealistic woman named Estâee Lauder. The chance...
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"New York City, 1938. Gloria Downing is done with lies. Eager to distance herself from a family scandal, what she needs is a total makeover and a friend she can lean on--and into her path walks a young, idealistic woman named Estâee Lauder. The chance encounter changes Gloria's life, giving her the fresh start she seeks"--
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1New York City, 1938
Iwould never forget the first words Estée Lauder said to me: "That's the wrong shade of lipstick for your coloring."
She'd crossed the room and was standing beside me, her advice unsolicited and, frankly, unwanted. I was getting my hair cut and dyed at Darlene's Palace of Beauty on 75th and Broadway. I'd gone there on an impulse as soon as they opened. I was their first customer that day, seeking refuge after the Hermitage Hotel for Men ousted me. I was twenty-one and no better equipped to face adulthood than a newborn left outside a firehouse, a baby bird fallen from the nest.
Darlene, the owner, picked up her scissors for some last-minute snips. She was a stout, gruff redhead with three pin curls across her forehead and a constellation of acne scars along her left cheek. While exhaling cigarette smoke from the corner of her mouth, she pumped the hydraulic foot pedal on the base of the chair. She bumped me up, up, up until I was eye level with a petite blonde who introduced herself as Estée-which came out sounding like Est-Stay-Lauder. She had luminous skin, not one pore visible on her face. She was pretty, but not extraordinarily so. You wouldn't have looked twice at her until you got to know her and then, well, then, you couldn't take your eyes off her. She had what I called creeping charisma, in that it snuck up on you. Despite sometimes being pushy, her charms were cumulative. She was not short on opinions, but still, she had the ability to draw people to her and could get away with saying and doing things that no one else dared. If someone had told me then that Estée and I would have become the closest of friends, I never would have believed them.
I assumed we were about the same age but later on learned that she was seven years my senior. Later still, I'd discovered that she was actually nine years older. For someone trying to portray herself as nearly a decade younger than she was, she certainly didn't dress the part. The woman
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standing before me wore a boxy beige town suit with the jacket buttoned to her throat. The tiny little beige hat, tilted just so, seemed affixed to her blonde marcelled hair. Even my mother wouldn't have worn such an outfit. Yes, the quality was good, and I knew how to spot finely made clothes, but the style was that of a middle-aged woman trying to hide figure flaws.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I didn't catch your name." She spoke like a blue blood, with the affected speech pattern of someone who spent her summers on Martha's Vineyard.
"Gloria. Gloria Downing." The name still sounded foreign to me. It even tasted funny on my tongue. I'd taken it from a box of matches still in my pocketbook: Downing Brothers Safety Match Co. Estée didn't notice the strange hitch in my voice because she was too busy looking at my dress. I'd been wearing the same one for three days now. It was wrinkled and smelled faintly of the gin I'd spilled on it the night before.
That dress was one of only a handful I'd held on to. The rest of my extensive and rather expensive wardrobe had been auctioned off, along with just about everything else inside our Fifth Avenue penthouse, including the penthouse itself. Even my Cord 812 and the other family automobiles had all been sold, the proceeds going to pay my father's legal fees, fines and restitution. Not that I would have worn those dresses or driven that car ever again. They were as good as stolen. Before we were forced out of our home, I'd stuffed what was left of my life into a single suitcase that was now stowed behind the front desk at Darlene's Palace of Beauty.
For the past six weeks, I'd been secretly living at a bachelor's hotel near Times Square. For obvious reasons, I knew that was never going to be a long-term solution. In fact, that very morning, my breasts and I had been escorted off the property. So now, on top of everything else, I had no place to live.
"And can I just say one more th
"I'm sorry," she said. "I didn't catch your name." She spoke like a blue blood, with the affected speech pattern of someone who spent her summers on Martha's Vineyard.
"Gloria. Gloria Downing." The name still sounded foreign to me. It even tasted funny on my tongue. I'd taken it from a box of matches still in my pocketbook: Downing Brothers Safety Match Co. Estée didn't notice the strange hitch in my voice because she was too busy looking at my dress. I'd been wearing the same one for three days now. It was wrinkled and smelled faintly of the gin I'd spilled on it the night before.
That dress was one of only a handful I'd held on to. The rest of my extensive and rather expensive wardrobe had been auctioned off, along with just about everything else inside our Fifth Avenue penthouse, including the penthouse itself. Even my Cord 812 and the other family automobiles had all been sold, the proceeds going to pay my father's legal fees, fines and restitution. Not that I would have worn those dresses or driven that car ever again. They were as good as stolen. Before we were forced out of our home, I'd stuffed what was left of my life into a single suitcase that was now stowed behind the front desk at Darlene's Palace of Beauty.
For the past six weeks, I'd been secretly living at a bachelor's hotel near Times Square. For obvious reasons, I knew that was never going to be a long-term solution. In fact, that very morning, my breasts and I had been escorted off the property. So now, on top of everything else, I had no place to live.
"And can I just say one more th
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Autoren-Porträt von Renée Rosen
Renée Rosen
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- Autor: Renée Rosen
- 2023, 432 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 20,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 059333566X
- ISBN-13: 9780593335666
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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In this captivating novel, Renée Rosen invites readers to peer behind the lovely facade of the iconic Estee Lauder, at her real origin and hardscrabble rise. This illuminating tale about ambition and friendship between Estee and Gloria Downing, another young woman who has changed her name and her identity, explores the dangers inherent in embellishing the truth. A fascinating glimpse into a legend who has changed the face of cosmetics forever. Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Personal Librarian and The Mitford Affair
"A scintillating, beautifully written peek into the life of one of America s most fascinating women, Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl is an ode to the singular magic of chasing and catching one s wildest dreams. Through Renee Rosen s well-trained pen, Estée Lauder returns, living and breathing on every page. Rosen is at the height of her storytelling prowess with this glittering novel that shines as brightly as the heroine at its center. I absolutely could not put it down. "
Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wedding Veil
A dazzling story of the beauty of female friendship and the dogged persistence of a cosmetics legend who knew that she and the women around her were meant for more Estée Lauder was a force to be reckoned with and her ambition and drive leap off the page in Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl!
Stephanie Marie Thornton, USA Today bestselling author of A Most Clever Girl
"Like the perfect red lipstick, Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl is both utterly stylish and satisfying. Renée Rosen deftly shows us what a determined dreamer Estee Lauder was and, in so doing, creates a heroine as timeless and remarkable as the products she introduced to women all around the world. A truly inspiring rags to riches tale, told by a wonderful storyteller.
Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The
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Renee Rosen tells a page-turning story of resilience and self-determination even as she brings a household name to life. Through fascinating detail and heartfelt empathy, she illuminates Estee Lauder s determined rise to be the woman she always wanted to be. An inspiration for us all.
Lynn Cullen, national bestselling author of The Woman with the Cure
"A tale of blazing trails in a man's world, FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL is an empowering, touching story of enduring friendship and beating the odds. A perfect spring read!"
--Heather Webb, USA Today bestselling author of Strangers in the Night
"With her golden pen, Rosen delves into the power of friendship, emphasizing that while cosmetics can be bought, true friendship must be earned. Rosen s world is lush, well researched, and her characters are vividly portrayed. Like her iconic subject matter, Rosen s FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL is truly an inspiration.
-- Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author of WOMAN ON FIRE
An intimate and fascinating glimpse into the woman whose determination to fulfill her dream literally changed the face of American women, told with an immediacy that was captivating far beyond the final page. A must read!
Shelley Noble, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Island
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl sweeps us into the fascinating world of New York s beauty industry and pulls back the veil on the Cinderella story of how Estee Lauder carved out a name for herself through perseverance and hard work. With Renee Rosen s impressive research and richly crafted characters, this beautifully written story will be one you won t be able to put down as you cheer these women on.
Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Librarian Spy
Renée Rosen s gift for creating real, fallible and compelling characters we grow to love and cheer for shines in Fifth Avenue Glamor Girl, a story of the grit and determination behind the glamor of beauty icon, Estée Lauder, and of an enduring, flawed friendship between two strong women. Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl is a brilliant, absorbing, and emotional novel you won t want to put down!
Christine Wells, author of Sisters of the Resistance
Renée Rosen s Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl vividly portrays the elegance of the 1930s and 1940s cosmetics industry while showing the warts-and-all journey of the rise of the iconic Estée Lauder s rise. Readers will love this fascinating story of two women concealing the blemishes of their past while building a friendship that will carry them through the heartbreak and ambition of claiming their space at the beauty counter.
Georgie Blalock, author of The Other Windsor Girl
Renee Rosen tells a page-turning story of resilience and self-determination even as she brings a household name to life. Through fascinating detail and heartfelt empathy, she illuminates Estee Lauder s determined rise to be the woman she always wanted to be. An inspiration for us all.
Lynn Cullen, national bestselling author of The Woman with the Cure
"A tale of blazing trails in a man's world, FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL is an empowering, touching story of enduring friendship and beating the odds. A perfect spring read!"
--Heather Webb, USA Today bestselling author of Strangers in the Night
"With her golden pen, Rosen delves into the power of friendship, emphasizing that while cosmetics can be bought, true friendship must be earned. Rosen s world is lush, well researched, and her characters are vividly portrayed. Like her iconic subject matter, Rosen s FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL is truly an inspiration.
-- Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author of WOMAN ON FIRE
An intimate and fascinating glimpse into the woman whose determination to fulfill her dream literally changed the face of American women, told with an immediacy that was captivating far beyond the final page. A must read!
Shelley Noble, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Island
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl sweeps us into the fascinating world of New York s beauty industry and pulls back the veil on the Cinderella story of how Estee Lauder carved out a name for herself through perseverance and hard work. With Renee Rosen s impressive research and richly crafted characters, this beautifully written story will be one you won t be able to put down as you cheer these women on.
Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Librarian Spy
Renée Rosen s gift for creating real, fallible and compelling characters we grow to love and cheer for shines in Fifth Avenue Glamor Girl, a story of the grit and determination behind the glamor of beauty icon, Estée Lauder, and of an enduring, flawed friendship between two strong women. Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl is a brilliant, absorbing, and emotional novel you won t want to put down!
Christine Wells, author of Sisters of the Resistance
Renée Rosen s Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl vividly portrays the elegance of the 1930s and 1940s cosmetics industry while showing the warts-and-all journey of the rise of the iconic Estée Lauder s rise. Readers will love this fascinating story of two women concealing the blemishes of their past while building a friendship that will carry them through the heartbreak and ambition of claiming their space at the beauty counter.
Georgie Blalock, author of The Other Windsor Girl
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