{"product_id":"furious-love-elizabeth-taylor-richard-burton-and-the-marriage-of-the-century-isbn-9780061562853","title":"Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century","description":"From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal letters and journals, and he and Schoenberger have also interviewed the Burton family at length, including Burton’s actress daughter Kate. This is truly an authorized and singularly informed biography of these two larger-than-life stars, and of their glamorous, volatile, and audacious relationship. | \u003cp\u003eHe was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman. She was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called \"the marriage of the century\"—was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShocking and unsparing in its honesty, \u003cem\u003eFurious Love\u003c\/em\u003e explores the very public marriage of \"Liz and Dick\" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard. But it is much more than a celebrity biography; it's an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Exciting and well-written, fast-paced yet containing a wealth of information, Furious Love is a fine read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Bosworth, author of Marlon Brando: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] unfailingly respectful and journalistically honest chronicle. . . . Where this book breaks ground is in its ability to humanize these colossal celebs. . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Long before there was Brangelina, the high-wire romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton rocked the world.  In Furious Love, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger provide dramatic historical insights into Hollywood’s stormiest, up-and-down relationship.  Every page is riveting.  A hit book for sure!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Brinkley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Furious Love] is fascinating, heartbreaking, and romantic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kashner and Schoenberger have had access to unpublished portions of Taylor’s autobiography and, more important, to 40 of the many love letters Burton sent her over the years. The latter, excerpted here, are remarkable: by turns, playful, elegant, heartbreakingly felt and wonderfully earthy... The best parts of Furious Love depict Taylor and Burton at work, or quote their conversations about acting, film and the stage.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] entertaining, blow-by-blow account of the life and times of an epic Hollywood couple... There is no shortage of saucy anecdotes in Furious Love...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An indulgent, plenty-of-fun book...the authors make shrewd observations...juicy…a good beach book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I fell for Furious Love, hook, line and sinker... Ultimately Furious Love is utterly persuasive on the ineffable force of ‘the most notorious, publicized, celebrated, and vilified love affair of its day,’ offering a powerful portrait of the ecstasies and travails of overreaching passion and crippled psyches...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] five-alarm blaze of a biography that enthralls like an Olympian epic... [it] reads like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night...The authors make an excellent case that each deepened the other’s craft... a lively account of the compromises and struggles of marriage in general as well as a vivid portrait of this particular two-career marriage on steroids...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] five-alarm blaze of a biography that enthralls like an Olympian epic. . . . The authors make an excellent case that each deepened the other’s craft. . . . 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