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OutBook Book Club On Zoom
- Date: 09/01/2021 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Palm Springs Cultural Center (VIP Lounge)
2300 East Baristo Road
Palm Springs, California 92262
OutBook Book Club
The OutBook Book Club is supported by The Palm Springs Cultural Center and the Palm Springs Public Library. Selections are chosen by group members and highlight a mix of new LGBTQ+ releases and influential classics.
OutBook meets on Zoom the first Wednesday of the month from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (PST). The book discussion starts at 7:00 p.m. (from 6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. is a social mixer). To attend the OutBook Book Club on Zoom, please email book club coordinator Hubertus Zegers at hwzegers@gmail.com in advance of the meeting.
View other selections for the OutBook Book Club.
Most titles are available as Downloadable Audiobooks and/or eBooks from PSPL.
September 1, 2021
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman
—Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished—and beloved—actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today.
Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life. He married five times and had numerous affairs.
Despite a remarkable degree of success, Grant remained deeply conflicted about his past, his present, his basic identity, and even the public that worshipped him in movies such as Gunga Din, Notorious, and North by Northwest.
Drawing on Grant’s own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends, this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal.
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