Charles Bossom
 O'Farrell, Kathy , as told to Rube Goldberg ( Signed) I Made My Bed , New York: Doubleday & Co, 1960.First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo Inscribed By Author Inscribed by Rube Goldberg on ffep. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth covered boards with bright titling on spine. Into the world of confession books by celebrities, and by noncelebrities who just want to confess, bursts a glittering new star. Kathy O'Farrell rose to fame in the movies, vaudeville, and night clubs and had a meteoric fall to the gutter. Kathy's great yen for virile men and quart-sized bottles caused her downfall and she loved every minute of it. Here is Kathy's own wild and zany tale: of her mother, squeezed to death during a department store sale of wash-rags; of her drunken father, a counterfeiter who knew how to make a buck but not a five or ten; of her Egyptian cousin Radish Abdel Alameda who raised her; of her half brother Ptolemy, who didn't act like her half brother out behind the Sphinx; of her belly-dance routine that led to stardom in Hollywood and New York; of sin and booze and riding in Cadillacs and hiding in garbage trucks. Kathy sank into happy oblivion in the gutter and of course a book was the next step. It is a book that would shock the nation were it not for the fact that our heroine is entirely fictitious and only Rube Goldberg is real. For rough and rowdy spoofing, for readers who are tired of plucky celebrities who hit the skids and make game comebacks, this is the book to end all such books. (Book ref. 127251) £25.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Charles Bossom , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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