Daisy Goodwin
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Daisy Georgia Goodwin was born on December 19, 1961. She is a British television producer, novelist and poet. After attending Westminster School and Queen's College, London Goodwin studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge and attended Columbia Film School before joining the BBC as a trainee mehr anzeigen arts producer in 1985. In 1998, she moved to Talkback Productions, and in 2005, founded Silver River Productions. Her first novel, My Last Duchess, was published in the UK in August 2010 and, under the title The American Heiress, in the U.S. and Canada in June 2011. She has also published eight poetry anthologies and a memoir entitled Silver River, and was chairman of the judging panel for the 2010 Orange Prize for women's fiction. In 2014 her title, The Fortune Hunter made The New York Times Best Seller List. Her titles include The Fortune Hunter, My Last Duchess, Bringing Up Baby: The New Mother's Companion and Poems to Last a Lifetime. Television shows that she has worked on include How Clean is Your House, House Doctor, Grand Designs, Your Money or Your Life and Property Ladder. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Daisy Georgia Goodwin is an English writer and television producer. She has published several novels and eight anthologies of poetry.
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Apart from the clunky and amateur writing ('jumping up and down in excitement like an excited child'), I'm not even sure what image of Maria Callas Goodwin was trying to convey - do we admire her for building her natural talent into fame and fortune, as opposed to 'women with no direction beyond finding a man to finance their lifestyle'? Pity her for throwing away her independence on a womanising slick of oil like Onassis, which is somehow different to his teenage first wife or Jackie Kennedy and her sister, because Callas was a 'real woman' who only wanted to make her man happy? I honestly thought I was reading an ode to Onassis written by a male author - Maria's life story is defined by the few years she wasted on him, and he is the only person to receive fair treatment in the whole book. Even Grace Kelly, who is portrayed as a bitter drunk flirting with Onassis when in reality she had taste enough to hate him, is thrown under the bitchy bus. 'All I have done is smile and wave and have a couple of kids,' Goodwin actually has the Princess of Monaco tell Maria - which is a bad thing, despite the fact that Grace Kelly was also a self-made working woman before she married, because ... Well, I lose track. Maybe because she didn't get to marry Ari and have his children (which Maria didn't either, despite the rumours that Goodwin obviously latched onto)? I actually threw up a little in my mouth when Grace Kelly was rebuffed by Onassis - 'Grace was beautiful, and he could see the wickedness underneath the porcelain skin, but at this moment she left him cold.' Please!
Listen, Maria Callas made one big - or rather, short and squat - mistake in her life, but she was a real woman with incredible talent. Here, she and all of the other personalities in her life, apart from Onassis of course, are reduced to caricatures. How any author can suck the life out of people who actually lived documented lives is beyond me, but I think Goodwin started her research with Wikipedia as a checklist and then turned history into a soap opera. The bubble-headed first wife who deserved to lose her meal ticket - despite coming from a wealthy family herself - because she didn't love her cheating husband enough The calculating actress turned princess who wants the best of both worlds and throws herself at a man with gold taps on his yacht in the presence of her husband. The blameless bimbo who is better than the other actress because she too came from nothing and is therefore portrayed as a victim. The 'stick insect' women out for what they can get, despite maintaining a svelte figure being some kind of achievement in other women who also steal husbands. Not forgetting the mercenary first husband who 'admired Callas the great diva and not Maria the woman' and couldn't give his infertile wife a child.
I'm sorry for contributing to the author's gold coins, Madame Callas, even if I only paid 99p. You and every woman slated in this book deserve far better.… (mehr)