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Awardwinning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo and the culture that worshiped her

Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941 Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo Greta Garbo is in peoples minds hearts and dreams Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable she managed in sixteen short years to infiltrate Americas subconscious her decision to suddenly end her film career at the age of thirtysix only made her more irresistible Garbo appeared in only twentyfour movies yet her impact on the worldand that indescribable transcendent presence she possessedwas rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe She was a phenomenon a Sphinx a myth but also a Swedish peasant girl uneducated nave and always on her guard

In Garbo acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb attempts to capture the everelusive essence of Garbo through the eyes of others in addition to a vivid and thorough retelling of her life Gottlieb combs through glimpses of Garbo in literature music private letters and of course films in order to better understand her Discovering her within Ernest Hemingways For Whom the Bell Tolls and in the letters of Marianne Moore and following her from her early movies with MGM to her careerdefining Academy Awardnominated role in Camille to her worldstopping decision to leave the limelight Gottlieb crafts a biography of unprecedented intimacy and scope in the hopes of capturing the woman that only the camera knew