Maria Callas: The Woman behind the Legend

by Arianna Huffington

Overview

Legendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of this biography by author and columnist Huffington. Huffington tells of Callas' transformation from a shy, chubby girl into one of the greatest opera singers of all time, her passionate love affair with Aristotle Onassis, and her ill-fated marriage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815412281
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/14/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	328,663
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Arianna Huffington, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Picasso, How to Overthrow the Government, and The Fourth Instinct, divides her time between Los Angeles and Washington, D. C.

Editorial Reviews

She will have the people of Cailornia in her heart. I know that becasue i experienced it.

The author has entered the complex and contradictory mind of Maria Callas in an extraordinary way, and the result is a powerful story told movingly yet without exaggeration. It is unquestionably an important book, and surely the finest biography of Callas ever written.

The most readable and by far the most illuminating biography to date of Callas the woman...Compulsive and convincing reading

From the Publisher

The author has entered the complex and contradictory mind of Maria Callas in an extraordinary way, and the result is a powerful story told movingly yet without exaggeration. It is unquestionably an important book, and surely the finest biography of Callas ever written.

John Ardoin

The most readable and by far the most illuminating biography to date of Callas the woman...Compulsive and convincing reading

(London) The Times (UK)

She will have the people of Cailornia in her heart. I know that becasue i experienced it.

San Jose Mercury News - Pauline Lubens

The most readable and by far the most illuminating biography to date of Callas the woman...Compulsive and convincing reading

(London) The Times

She will have the people of Cailornia in her heart. I know that becasue i experienced it.
— Pauline Lubens

San Jose Mercury News