Bette and Joan The Divine Feud
BETTE AND JOAN
The Divine Feud
Copyright © 1989, 2008 by Shaun Considine
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Bette and Joan:
The Divine Feud
Reviews
"Fascinating and vastly entertaining….all you want is more."
Time Out
magazine
"A hugely entertaining chronicle - juicy, unrestrained and exhaustively researched. A movie fan's dream. A gossip aficionado's bible."
Syndicated columnist Liz Smith
"The book has the pace of a tennis match, as the narrative bounces from Crawford's career to Davis's, and back again, all told in a rip-roaring style. A definite ten."
New York
magazine
"Over ten years in the writing this isn't merely a catch-penny item. It is well researched throughout and quite riveting to read. Splendid stuff!"
Film Review
magazine
"Should dead coals be raked over? Ah, but these are not women, or even human beings, but glorious, impossible monsters, as deadly and unreal as the Medusa. Their story may be fact, but it is nonetheless, and irresistibly, legend. Let me shame the devil...I loved it."
Playwright Hugh Leonard
"Quite the best read I've had across the Atlantic - or anywhere else, come to that."
Actress Dame Diana Rigg
"It is one of those 'don't-put-it-down' books...fascinating…funny, sad, tragic. it's just terrific."
Playwright Robert Anderson
"'Bette and Joan' is divine fun. Just thinking about a passage would send me into spasms of laughter - on the subway, in the office, on the street, by myself. It kept me in book pleasure Nirvana, one of those rare books you want never to end. Along with being a comic masterpiece, it is a moving and intimate portrait of two one-of-a-kind dames."
Author Donna Marie Nowak
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