Here Lies the Heart
Mercedes De Acosta
A murky combination of refinement, confusion, and a desperate faith in the occult, is this autobiography of Mercedes de Acosta, writer, society woman, and intimate of Greta Garbo. What begins as an engaging description of a child brought up within a cultivated and colorful Spanish household develops into an avalanche of name dropping and a depressing diagram of the confusion a woman encounters when she is intent upon being a man. Bizarre is the world which Mercedes de Acosta depicts– her brother’s violent death, her pale marriage, her ardent devotion to the bewildering Garbo, her encounters with Isadora Duncan. Sensitive without the reticence of sensitivity, this is a repetitious account of an urbane, bewildered woman and her peripheral encounters with a shadowy world of celebrities. ~ Kirkus Review
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| ISBN | 9780405073601 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography; Grier Rated |
| Copyright Date | 1960 |
| Publication Date | Jun-75 |
| Publisher | Ayer Co Pub |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 372 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Authors, American – Biography; Autobiography; Lesbians – Biography. – United States |
| BookID | 5331 |
