by Ean Wood

Headlong Though Life is a racy and compelling biography of Isadora Duncan that gives readers a front-seat ride in the breathless career of this extraordinary woman.

Isadora's life was a bold challenge to convention. She was a campaigner for women's rights, a pioneer in the field of children's education and a believer in sexual freedom, moving from being a romantic Edwardian virgin to an enthusiastic lover. Her whole life was filled with revolutionary fervour. She knew wealth and poverty, joy and freedom.

Headlong Through Life tells a gripping, often startling, story. Ean Wood has filled this biography of Isadora with a wealth of telling detail and revealing anecdotes, drawn from the journals and diaries of her contemporaries and from Isadora's own memoirs.

The result is a vivid and enthralling picture of a woman who, with art as her beacon, plunged heedless and "headlong through life'.

Reviewer's Comments:

The film: 'Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World' was made back in 1966. It gave me a brief and, in my opinion, rather unsatisfatory introduction to Isadora's charismatic and often wilful personna and her horrific death in a Bugatti car.

Unfortunately, much of the film was fiction including her tragic demise which in reality was far more shocking than depicted in the film – and was not in a Bugatti!

I simply hadn't realised how many liberties had been taken by the film makers and how far the story had strayed from the truth until I read Ean Woods superb biography.

Isadora absolutely came alive as the pages were turned. She was a lot of fun but she definitely wasn't perfect!

This thoroughly enjoyable book tells her story with an honesty and integrity that I found refreshing.

Ray Hatley – editor
www.history.uk.com

The Author

Ean Wood spent much of his career in the film industry before becoming a full-time writer.

Headlong Through Life is Ean Wood's fifth book and like his earlier books Dietrich: A Biography, The Josephine Baker Story, George Gershwin and Born to Swing: The Story of the Big Bands, it is a thoroughly-researched and entertaining and celebration of a fascinating life.

Ean Wood lives in Peel on the Isle of Man.

Details

ISBN: 1 84624 003 4
424 pages
Hardback
£17.99
PUBLICATION DATE: 27 April 2006

Published by:
Book Guild Publishing
Temple House
25 High St
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 2LU
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Order Line: (01825) 723398