Michael Gross (1) (1952–)
Autor(a) de 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
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About the Author
Michael Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building, and House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address, is the editor-in-chief of Avenue and a mostrar mais contributing editor for Departures, and his journalism and other writing have appeared in magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including the New York Times, New York, GQ, Esquire, and Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Michael Gross
Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) 259 cópias
House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address (2014) 71 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1952
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
- Educação
- Vassar College (BA | History)
- Ocupação
- journalist
author
magazine editor - Relacionamentos
- Gross, Milton (father)
Gross, Jane (sister) - Organizações
- The New York Times
Travel + Leisure
Membros
Resenhas
Great book with interesting stories. Back when models were known by their first names and were on magazine covers.
Well, after about 50 pages I started skimming. I managed to get through Chapter 16 (page 216), but then I just gave up. It was too boring.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Membros
- 1,145
- Popularidade
- #22,429
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 17
- ISBNs
- 91
- Idiomas
- 5
Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women:
by Michael Gross
Positives: I liked the Author's writing. The dark side of t he fashion industry was absolutely captured. I feel the writer is quite talented.
The negatives? What I thought I'd like best was what I wound up liking least. I had been looking forward to reading about some of the models. But aspects were way to gossipy and focused so greatly on their love lives.
I guess I should have expected it..the book is about Fashion..and Models after all! But I really wanted to know more about the women themselves, the different personality aspects that made them who they are. I came at it from a more psychological perspective .
This book wasn't BAD or anything but it wasn't as powerful as I'd have liked and honestly? After awhile , the models started to blur into each other and I got bored. I had not imagined myself being bored with a book on an industry like this but there you go. It happened.… (mais)