{"title":"Hadley Freeman","description":"Hadley Freeman is a staff writer for The Guardian newspaper in the UK. She was born in New York and lives in London. Her books include Life Moves Pretty Fast and the bestselling House of Glass,  and her work has appeared in Vogue US and UK, New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications.","products":[{"product_id":"life-moves-pretty-fast-the-lessons-we-learned-from-eighties-movies-and-why-we-dont-learn-them-from-movies-anymore-paperback","title":"Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever--featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman, movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future; all a teenager needs to know in Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club, and Mystic Pizza; the ultimate in action from Top Gun, Die Hard, Beverly Hills Cop, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; love and sex in 9 1\/2 Weeks, Splash, About Last Night, The Big Chill, and Bull Durham; and family fun in The Little Mermaid, ET, Big, Parenthood, and Lean On Me. In Life Moves Pretty Fast, Hadley puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use, detailing the decade's key players, genres, and tropes. She looks back on a cinematic world in which bankers are invariably evil, where children are always wiser than adults, where science is embraced with an intense enthusiasm, and the future viewed with giddy excitement. And, she considers how the changes between movies then and movies today say so much about society's changing expectations of women, young people, and art--and explains why Pretty in Pink should be put on school syllabuses immediately. From how John Hughes discovered Molly Ringwald, to how the friendship between Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi influenced the evolution of comedy, and how Eddie Murphy made America believe that race can be transcended, this is a \"highly personal, witty love letter to eighties movies, but also an intellectually vigorous, well-researched take on the changing times of the film industry\" (The Guardian).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367052050655,"sku":"9781501130458","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hWAGdu_vaO9781501130458.webp?v=1789102269"},{"product_id":"house-of-glass-the-story-and-secrets-of-a-twentieth-century-jewish-family-paperback","title":"House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter Hadley Freeman investigates her family's secret history in this \"exceptional\" (The Washington Post) \"masterpiece\" (The Daily Telegraph) uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother's death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso's archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz. Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family's past, discovering more about the lives of her grandmother and her three brothers, Jacques, Henri, and Alex. Their stories sometimes typical, sometimes astonishing--reveal the broad range of experiences of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust. This \"frightening, inspiring, and cautionary\" (Kirkus Reviews) family saga is filled with extraordinary twists, vivid characters, and famous cameos, illuminating the Jewish and immigrant experience in the World War II era. Reviewers have asked: \"is there a better book about being Jewish?\" (The Daily Telegraph) Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, House of Glass is \"a triumph\" (The Bookseller) and a powerful story about the past that echoes issues that remain relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367976206559,"sku":"9781501199202","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EmMOts5Lxc9781501199202.webp?v=1789117000"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/hadley-freeman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}