Looking for Gatsby

by Faye Dunaway

In Looking for Gatsby - a title which perfectly conveys the haunting pursuit of romance that has always been a part of her life - Faye Dunaway has written a truly remarkable book. As she probes relentlessly for the truth about herself, she fearlessly confronts her demons, trying to set the record straight about her life, her loves, her work, searching for the events that shaped her, that gave her the drive - and the blazing need - to escape from a childhood of poverty and turmoil and to succeed so completely as an actress. When she began her acting career, it was in the New York theater. Success came almost immediately, in Hogan's Goat, and fame soon after that, when in only her third film she was cast opposite Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde. Her talent and her enigmatic beauty made her a major international star almost overnight and gave her at last the life she had only dreamed about as a child. But as Faye so openly admits, reality has a way of mocking dreams, and while success a