Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles by Jerome Charyn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles Author: Jerome Charyn Narrator: Natalie Duke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his 'blunt, brilliantly crafted prose' (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the United States and France. With Big Red, Charyn reimagines the life of one of America's most enduring icons, 'Gilda' herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red tresses and hypnotic dancing graced the silver screen over sixty times in her nearly forty-year career. The quintessential movie star of the 1940s, Hayworth has long been objectified as a sex symbol, pin-up girl, and so-called Love Goddess. Here Charyn, channeling the ghosts of a buried past, finally lifts the veils that have long enshrouded Hayworth, evoking her emotional complexity—her passions, her pain, and her inner turmoil. Reanimating such classic films as Gilda and The Lady from Shanghai, Big Red is a bittersweet paean to Hollywood's Golden Age, a tender yet honest portrait of a time before blockbusters and film franchises—one that promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike. Lauded for his 'polymorphous imagination' (Jonathan Lethem), Charyn once again has created one of the most inventive novels in recent American literature.