Natasha (2 page)
Authors: Suzanne Finstad
“Fascinating… meticulously researched… the perfect guilty summer pleasure.”
Houston Chronicle
“Finstad’s research into Hollywood and Wood’s part in it is simply phenomenal… a detailed, realistic, and frightening portrait of a child forced outside herself to live the dreams and fulfill the needs of others by becoming the star known as Natalie Wood.”
Rocky Mountain News
“Sheds new light on Wood’s life, which has been clouded by time, myth, and Hollywood publicity… contradicting a half-century of Hollywood legend.”
Reuters
“Compelling and revealing… gripping… great depth.”
Premiere
Brimming with details… a lot of juicy tales about making movies… but the true drama is behind the scenes.”
Biography
“Gathers momentum, offering fleeting glimpses into the dynamics of Hollywood legends… but throughout the biography the brightest star is Wood…”
The Oregonian
“Natalie Wood’s life makes for an insightful, haunting, page-turner of a book as written by Suzanne Finstad in
Natasha.”
Palo Alto Daily News
“A life entangled in mystical oddities… the climax—death by drowning—is reached with a Chekhovian inevitability… the most incredible secondary biographical character ever brought back to life… fraught with drama.”
Toronto National Post
“[This] thorough biography of film star Natalie Wood has all the traditional elements of a summer blockbuster…”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Juicy… the actress seems to face a Marilyn Monroe-esque misfortune on every other page.”
US
“Exhaustively researched… enormously sympathetic to its subject… a touching tale of a star’s impossible struggle to attain normality.”
Glasgow Sunday Herald
“For once, the truth is more interesting than publishing fiction… clearly a labour of love and an eloquent portrait of an extraordinary woman with a lot of ‘demons.’”
Nottingham Evening Post
