<div><div>&#8220;The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent.&#8221;&#8212;Liz Smith<br>&nbsp;<br>She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.&nbsp; She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life.&nbsp; Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard Hughes begged her to marry him&#8212;but she knocked out his front teeth instead.<br>&nbsp;<br>She was one of the great icons in Hollywood history&#8212;star of <i>The Killers</i>, <i>The Barefoot Contessa</i>, and <i>The Night of the Iguana</i>&#8212;and one of the few whose actual life was grander and more colorful than any movie. Her jaw-dropping beauty, charismatic presence, and fabulous, scandalous adventures fueled the legend of Ava Gardner&#8212;Hollywood&#8217;s most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star.<br>&nbsp;<br>&#8220;A seductive book.&#8221;&#8212;<i>The New York Times</i><br>&nbsp;<br>&#8220;Deliciously entertaining.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br>&nbsp;<br>&#8220;Irresistible and finally heartbreaking.&#8221;&#8212;<i>The </i><i>Newark</i><i> Star-Ledger</i><br><i>&nbsp;</i><br>&#8220;Super.&#8221;&#8212;<i>USA</i><i> Today</i><br>&nbsp;<br>In this acclaimed first full biography of Gardner, Lee Server recreates&#8212;with great style and vivid detail&#8212;the actress&#8217;s life, from her beginnings as a barefoot North Carolina farm girl to her heady days as a Hollywood goddess.&nbsp; He paints the full spectacle of her tumultuous private life&#8212;including her string of failed marriages to Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Artie Shaw&#8212;and Gardner&#8217;s lifelong search for adventure and love.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>Ava Gardner</i>: <i>&#8220;Love is Nothing&#8221;</i> is both an exceptional work of biography and a richly entertaining read. <br>&nbsp;</div></div>