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Sharon Tate : a life / Ed Sanders ; illustrations by Rick Veitch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]Description: xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306818899
  • 0306818892
Subject(s):
Contents:
Early years -- Discovered by a producer -- Early films: Eye of the Devil, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Don't Make Waves -- 1967: the year of love, dolls, rosemary -- 1968: marriage and rising in Hollywood -- 1969: Cielo Drive and pregnancy -- Sharon's final film -- The summer of 1969 -- A cult at the Spahn Ranch kills -- Sharon Tate's final few days -- Death on Cielo Drive -- Night and morning -- August 9-10: more carnage and grief -- Aftermath and investigation -- The Manson group keeps killing and moves to the high desert near Death Valley -- The breaking of the case.
Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's Sharon Tate offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household. Illustrated with Rick Veitch's evocative images, Sharon Tate is required reading for anyone fascinated by the dark side of the '60s."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic tradition, Sanders presents the most thorough look ever into the heartbreaking story of Sharon Tate, the iconic actress who found love, fame, and ultimately tragedy during her all-too-brief life.

Sharon Tate: A Life traces Sharon's path from beauty queen to budding young actress: her early love affairs, her romance with and marriage to director Roman Polanski, and the excitement of the glamorous life she had always sought -- all set against the background of the turbulent 1960s. This sympathetic account tells the powerful story of her determined rise through the ranks of Hollywood and to the brink of stardom before her name became forever linked with the shocking murder spree that took her life.

In 1969, the Polanski house was targeted by the followers of cultist Charles Manson. Why the Manson clan focused its gaze on Sharon remains unclear, but the world was soon shocked to its core as it learned of the brutal murders of a pregnant Sharon Tate and her friends at her idyllic home in Los Angeles. Sanders once again examines this horrific crime and its aftermath, expounding on what may have led the killers to that particular house on that particular evening.

Sharon Tate takes readers on a sometimes joyous yet inevitably heart-wrenching tour of the '60s as seen through the eyes of someone who lived it, survived it, and remembers it all too well. Brilliant illustrations by noted artist Rick Veitch lend character to this riveting narrative of the life and times of a beloved actress whose image and whose fate still haunt us to this day.

"In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's Sharon Tate offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household. Illustrated with Rick Veitch's evocative images, Sharon Tate is required reading for anyone fascinated by the dark side of the '60s."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Early years -- Discovered by a producer -- Early films: Eye of the Devil, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Don't Make Waves -- 1967: the year of love, dolls, rosemary -- 1968: marriage and rising in Hollywood -- 1969: Cielo Drive and pregnancy -- Sharon's final film -- The summer of 1969 -- A cult at the Spahn Ranch kills -- Sharon Tate's final few days -- Death on Cielo Drive -- Night and morning -- August 9-10: more carnage and grief -- Aftermath and investigation -- The Manson group keeps killing and moves to the high desert near Death Valley -- The breaking of the case.

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