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The divine Miss Marble : a life of tennis, fame, and mystery / Robert Weintraub.
"The story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble, and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524745363 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [New York] : Dutton, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Marble, Alice, 1913-1990. Tennis players > United States > Biography. Women tennis players > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 796.342092 Marbl-W | 31681010200566 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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"The story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble, and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery"-- - Penguin Putnam
âIn Robert Weintraubâs exhaustive biography, The Divine Miss Marble, he transports the reader into Marbleâs vibrant world. Itâs a dreamy, indomitable life worth reading about as todayâs tennis tries to return to form.ââThe Washington Post
âAn intriguing book about a fascinating woman…highly recommended.ââLibrary Journal (starred review)Â
âDelightful and engrossing, this is a must for tennis fans.ââPublishers Weekly
The story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble, and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery.
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Who was Alice Marble?
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In her public life, she was the biggest tennis star of the pre-war era, a household name like Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. She was famous for overcoming serious illness to win the biggest tournaments, including Wimbledon. She was also a fashion designer and trendsetter, a contributor to a pioneering new comic called Wonder Womanâand friend to the biggest names in Hollywood and society, like Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, and members of families named Bloomingdale, Loew, and du Pont. She helped integrate tennis with her support of Althea Gibson, and even coached two young women who became stars in their own right: Billie Jean King and Sally Ride.
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Yet her private life provoked constant speculation while she was alive, and her own memoirs added layers of legend upon stories. According to Alice, she married a man who was killed in the skies over Europe during World War II. But who was the man she loved, and had he even existed? She was widely known for her patriotism during World War II. Had she really nearly given her life for her country as a spy, shot during a wild car chase fleeing foreign espionage agents?
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In The Divine Miss Marble, bestselling author Robert Weintraub traveled the country to uncover her fascinating story. And the more he learned about her, the more her mysteries and contradictions deepened. Alice was a powerful woman who knew her worth, demanding equal pay to men decades earlier than other female athletes; yet she was held in sway by a domineering, highly successful coach with whom she had a volatile relationship. She was renowned for her California style, and had a brilliant mind and the guts to overcome a lifetime of physical trauma.
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For the first time here, we come closer than ever before to the truths of this unforgettable life, and somehow itâs a story even more extraordinary than everything we already know about the divine Alice Marble.
