Ava Gardner by Peter Evans & Ava Gardner

Author:Peter Evans & Ava Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

15

How much longer is this fucking book going to take, baby?” Ava demanded as soon as I entered the apartment. It was 12:30 P.M., too early in the day to expect her to be at her most winning, but I wasn’t expecting her to be quite so disagreeable either.

“The delay doesn’t seem to concern you anywhere near as much as it concerns me. For you, there will always be another book. For me, this is it. This is my one shot, baby. I’m not asking for a literary masterpiece, fahcrissake. If I’d wanted a literary fucking masterpiece, I could have asked Robert Graves to write it for me,” she said, referring to the late English poet and novelist, a devoted admirer whom she equally adored. “I just want a book that’ll pay the fucking mortgage now, baby, not next year. Time’s not on my side, you know that, fahcrissake. You’re causing me a lot of fucking grief. You and I have a problem, baby.”

I knew that she was becoming anxious about the time I was taking to finish the chapters to submit to Dick Snyder, and I shouldn’t have been surprised by the frustration and anger in her voice, but I was. I hadn’t regarded the pages I left with her the previous

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