{"product_id":"9781250115966","title":"Florence Foster Jenkins: The biography that inspired the critically-acclaimed film","description":"Florence Foster Jenkins was the most famous, though untalented, soprano  in twentieth century America. Her extraordinary story is now a film  directed by Stephen Frears starring Meryl Streep as the indomitable  Florence Foster Jenkins and Hugh Grant as her husband\/manager, St. Clair  Bayfield.  In this full-length biography tie-in to the film, Nicholas  Martin, the scriptwriter, and Jasper Rees take a deeper look at her life  and times. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1868, Florence adored  music, but her wealthy father refused to allow her to study in Europe.  In 1909, she inherited a considerable sum of money when her father died.  It was then that she began to take singing lessons, vowed to become a  great soprano and met St Clair Bayfield. At seventy six, after a  lifetime supporting classical music societies and giving self-financed  recitals, she gave a solo concert at Carnegie Hall that drew Cole  Porter, Gypsy Rose Lee and other luminaries to the sold-out hall. It was  a night to remember.  Florence felt she had triumphed, but the crowd  roared with laughter. After a lifetime of singing to entertain others,  she didn’t know the one thing that everyone else did and that St. Clair  Bayfield kept from her:  she had a terrible voice and couldn’t sing a  note.  \u003ci\u003eFlorence Foster Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e is the book everyone will be  reading after Meryl Streep brings this unintentionally funny and  ultimately heartbreaking American woman to life.","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120969072880,"sku":"9781250115966","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250115966_p0.jpg?v=1769893051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250115966","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}