Title: Excellent research but Gattey's writing is too flat-footed
Product review: Books like this can take many years to put together, thus Gattey's painstaking research is commendable.In reality, Luisa Tetrazzini was so daring and sexually voracious, she makes even Mae West seem tame by comparison. (At least Mae West never missed a performance because she was too busy at home having multiple orgasms.) La Tetrazzini was as mysterious as an oyster; she never learned to speak much English and used this language barrier to her advantage by having her publicist spin article after article to the news media without revealing much more about the singer's private life than which foods the soprano enjoyed or how much she missed being in England. Unfortunately, even though the account of her private life and her brilliant career should be a page-turner, Mr. Gattey does not know how to do justice to his material.
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