Ava: My Story by Ava Gardner
Ava: My Story by Ava Gardner is a 315-page hardcover published by Bantam Books, 1990. The dust jacket has some rubbing and shelf wear but is fully intact. The book has mild bumping to the spine and corners and has an inscription in ink on the front endpaper. Otherwise, the book is clean, the binding is tight and the pages are unmarked. Book Summary "If I don't tell my side of the story," Ava Gardner said, "it'll be too late, and then some self-appointed biographer will step in and add to the inaccuracies, the inventions, and the abysmal lies that already exist. I want to tell the truth...about the three men I loved and married: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Francis Sinatra. I want to write about the Hollywood I knew from the early forties when I arrived wide-eyed from the cotton and tobacco fields of North Carolina, about the films I made, many in exotic settings all over the world, often a damn sight more dramatic than the movies themselves. I want to remember it all, the go