num_pages: 128
description: The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their timefrom Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphyexplored in haunting provocative new work by an acclaimed poet and actress.Amber Tamblyn is both an award-winning film and television actress and an acclaimed poet. As such she is deeply fascinated-and intimately familiarwith the toll exacted from young women whose lives are offered in sacrifice as starlets. The stories of these actresses both famous and obscure-tragic stories of suicide murder obscurity and other forms of deathinspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work. Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphyand paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch Adrian Tome Marilyn Manson and Marcel DzamaDark Sparkler is a surprising and provocative collection from a young artist of wide-ranging talent culminating in an extended confessional epilogue of astonishing candor and poetic command. Actresses featured in Dark Sparkler include:Marilyn MonroeBrittany MurphyDana PlatoJayne MansfieldJean HarlowDominique DunneSharon TateHeather ORourkeBridgette AndersenShannon Michelle WilseyJudith BarsiPeg EntwistleCarole LandisAnissa JonesSusan PetersBarbara La MarrLucy GordonSirkka SariLi ToblerThelma ToddSamantha SmithLupe ValezTaruni SachdevRebecca Shaeffer
language: English
title: Dark Sparkler
publisher: Harper Perennial