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'My Judy Garland Life,' 'Bittersweet'

MY JUDY GARLAND LIFE, by Susie Boyt. Bloomsbury, 310 pp., $25.

Many a celebrity biographer is really a rabid fan hiding behind reams of research, smothering the reader in unprocessed minutiae. It's refreshing then that Susie Boyt - novelist, daughter of Lucian Freud, great-granddaughter of Sigmund and Judy Garland fan extraordinaire - doesn't disguise her ardor for the leather-lunged one...

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