RaveAirMailThe why and wherefore of this woman’s extraordinary life and career is masterfully told in Robert Gottlieb’s new book, Garbo, handsomely published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with more than 250 splendid duotone photos, an extremely thorough filmography...all part of a terrific 100-page \'Garbo Reader\' ... This generous addendum includes an amazing selection of Garbo material—comments by everyone from Ingmar to Ingrid Bergman, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Noël Coward ... This \'Reader\' is preceded by 18 tight chapters that eloquently take us from a Swedish childhood of poverty and a woeful lack of education...but with many girlish dreams of becoming a great stage actress, all the way to international fame and wealth ... The book is written in a serious but witty, unpretentious, and often charming way, and does a fine job in trying to understand Garbo’s complicated personality.
