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368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781324093046
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication date: 25 June 2024
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"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty, '" said a young Esther Williams to impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism ...
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368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781324093046
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Description
"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty, '" said a young Esther Williams to impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism ...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings