Hilton Als Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Hilton Als is a memoirist and essayist.
2 books
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
Cynthia CarrHilton AlsCarr had to assemble her portrait of the young Candy from snippets, fragments, misremembered memories, and family shame. How did that child—born James Slattery—become this magnificent other?...To read about Candy’s early years, in Queens and Massapequa Park, is to long for her escape.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
Jennifer HomansHilton AlsJennifer Homans' biography of the master, George Balanchine, has, in addition to superlative history and reporting, some of the most beautiful writing I have ever read—felt—about an art form that's notoriously difficult to capture, and yet Homans does it.
Paperback, 2023
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book