[.ca] Inside Daisy Clover (ISBN 1852424249)

Hollywood Insanity From The Inside Out:
Told in the form a teenager's casually kept journal, "Inside Daisy Clover" is the story of a street-wise, hard-knocks kid with plenty of common sense who unexpectly vaults to stardom in the 1950s--only to find herself so much camera-fodder for dream factory machinery. Determined to hold onto her own values, Gavin Lambert's Daisy Clover becomes one of the most memorable women in modern American fiction: witty, rebellious, and unwilling to give away an inch of personal integrity even while drowning in Hollywood's ocean of self-created myth. Easily one of the finest books and most readable novels I've read in many years, you'll want to keep this one your shelf and return to it again and again.