ABOUT THIS BOOK: Georgia Durante has packed a lifetime of lessons into forty-eight years. Those who have known her for the past eighteen years as one of Hollywood's most successful female commercial stunt drivers have been shocked by the truth of her past.

Hollywood producers have known two Georgia Durante's: the steely-nerved stuntwoman with the skill to handle a three-ton high-performance vehicle in high-speed precision maneuvers; and the beautiful model and actress who, at seventeen, was considered the most photographed girl in the country.

They knew only those sides of her because that was all she chose to reveal. Only now does she share the full story of her life, in The Company She Keeps. Compelling and terrifying, The Company She Keeps tells the true story of Georgia Durantes storybook beginnings in Rochester, New York when at the tender age of twelve, the radiant little girl began her national modeling career. At seventeen, she became the "Kodak Girl" immortalized with her life-size image displayed in more than 80,000 retail stores across the country.

Soon the magnetic smile that propelled Georgia's modeling career served only to mask the pain she endured from a brutal rape at the hands of her brother-in-law, her first brushes with mob violence, the birth of her daughter, and a failed marriage, all before she turned twenty. The underworld is where Georgia sought comfort and eventually became a wheelwoman for the mob, giving birth to the career that she eventually pursues.

The Company She Keeps is powerful and raw; a deeply personal account of one womans life. Model, Mafia wife, victim and victor, Georgia Durante saw the worst that life had to offer and escaped it. She embraced the positive, but kept the negatives so as never to forget.

Condition: Good. SIGNED! Inscribed, personalized (see photo)! Includes signed bookmark. Click on Photo to see actual item. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships in a BOX with padding. Ships from California. Pages: Author's owner stamp (not ink) on signed intro page, not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, bumping to front bottom corner, edges -  curl to front edges, minor rubbing and bumping to parts. Spine lightly slanted.