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October Blood

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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October Blood

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

In "October Blood," the ever-fashionable Francine du Plessix Gray turns her novelistic attention to the most fashionable of current topics, the mother-and-daughter pair.

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Simon & Schuster

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0671555111

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9780671555115

Lovers and tyrants

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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Follows the life, loves, and desperations of Stephanie, from her childhood in France through her schooling, affairs, and marriage in the United States and an unconventional relationship with a younger man, to her confrontation with death

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316

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Simon & Schuster

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0671223380

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9780671223380

Them

A Memoir of Parents

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

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Them

A Memoir of Parents

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent Russian Jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. As part of the progressive artistic Russian émigré community living in Paris in the 1930s, the two were destined to meet. They began a passionate affair, and the year after Paris was occupied in World War II they fled to New York with Tatiana's young daughter, Francine. There they determinedly rose to the top of high society, holding court to a Who's Who list of the midcentury's intellectuals and entertainers. Flamboyant and outrageous, bold and brilliant, they were irresistible to friends like Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dalí, and the publishing tycoon Condé Nast. But to those who knew them well they were also highly neurotic, narcissistic, and glacially self-promoting, prone to cut out of their lives, with surgical precision, close friends who were no longer of use to them. Tatiana became an icon of New York fashion, and the hats she designed for Saks Fifth Avenue were de rigueur for stylish women everywhere. Alexander Liberman, who devotedly raised Francine as his own child from the time she was nine, eventually came to preside over the entire Condé Nast empire. The glamorous life they shared was both creative and destructive and was marked by an exceptional bond forged out of their highly charged love and raging self-centeredness. Their obsessive adulation of success and elegance was elevated to a kind of worship, and the high drama that characterized their lives followed them to their deaths. Tatiana, increasingly consumed with nostalgia for a long-lost Russia, spent her last years addicted to painkillers. Shortly after her death, Alexander, then age eighty, shocked all who knew him by marrying her nurse. Them: A Portrait of Parents is a beautifully written homage to the extraordinary lives of two fascinating, irrepressible people who were larger than life emblems of a bygone age. Written with honesty and grace by the person who knew them best, this generational saga is a survivor's story. Tatiana and Alexander survived the Russian Revolution, the fall of France, and New York's factory of fame. Their daughter, Francine, survived them.

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Penguin

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0143037196

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9780143037194

Soviet Women

Walking the Tightrope

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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Soviet Women

Walking the Tightrope

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

Discusses conditions in the Soviet Union affecting women and presents their viewpoints on equality.

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0385417330

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9780385417334

The Queen's Lover

A Novel

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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The Queen's Lover

A Novel

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

The Queen's Lover" reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette.

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305

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Penguin

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0143123564

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9780143123569

At Home With the Marquis De Sade

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

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At Home With the Marquis De Sade

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

This groundbreaking account of the scandalous life & violent times of the Donatien Alphonse Francoise, Marquis de Sade, explores his relationship with his family: his pious wife, Renee-Pelagie, his iron-willed mother-in-law, Mme. de Montreuil, & his three children. Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), one of the most perplexing personalities of Western culture, has been called Ôthe freest spirit who ever lived'. The author vividly brings to life these 2 dynamic women & the complex bonds they evolved with the Marquis, as they dedicated themselves to protecting, curbing &, ultimately, confining him. Recreates the hedonism & corruption of late-18th-cent. France, the ensuing Terror, & the oppression of the Napoleonic regime. Illustrations.

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0756783763

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9780756783761

Them

A Memoir of Parents

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

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A Memoir of Parents

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

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Madame de Stael

The First Modern Woman

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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Madame de Stael

The First Modern Woman

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

Madame de Stael was born into a world of political and intellectual prominence, as the daughter of Louis XVI's Minister of Finances, Jacques Necker. Later she married Sweden's ambassador to the French court and, for more than 20 years, held the limelight as philosopher, political figure and prolific writer. She was, however, more than just a mind. Despite a plain appearance, she was notoriously seductive and enjoyed whirlwind affairs with some of the leading intellectuals of her time - she was a true force of nature.

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Atlas and Company

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1934633216

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The Queen's Lover

A Novel

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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The Queen's Lover

A Novel

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

The Queen's Lover" reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette.

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Rage and Fire

A Life of Louise Colet--Pioneer, Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

By: Francine Gray

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Rage and Fire

A Life of Louise Colet--Pioneer, Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

By: Francine Gray

Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to present a compelling biography of one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Colet defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become an award-winning writer and the intimate of such great literary figures as Flaubert, Hugo and Musset. 16-page b&w photo insert.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684804530

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9780684804538

Rage and Fire

A Life of Louise Colet--Pioneer, Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

By: Francine Gray

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Rage and Fire

A Life of Louise Colet--Pioneer, Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

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Madame de Stael

The First Modern Woman

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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The First Modern Woman

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Soviet Women

Walking the Tightrope

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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Walking the Tightrope

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Discusses conditions in the Soviet Union affecting women and presents their viewpoints on equality.

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Simone Weil

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

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Simone Weil

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Intelligence exceptionnelle pour les uns, esprit intransigeant pour les autres, Simone Weil compte parmi les plus importants philosophes du XXe siècle. Sensible au christianisme tout en étant respectueuse de ses racines juives, intellectuelle convaincue de la valeur rédemptrice du travail manuel, ascète capable d'éprouver de grandes émotions esthétiques, militante engagée, Simone Weil ne faisait rien comme tout le monde. Ses écrits, toujours profondément originaux, ont traité de politique autant que de spiritualité, d'histoire et d'éthique autant que de poétique et de psychologie. Mettant tour à tour en lumière l'élève choyée, la militante syndicale, l'enseignante passionnée, la mystique et la philosophe, Francine du Plessix Gray arrive à saisir la complexité d'un être fascinant. Avec finesse, elle évoque le parcours singulier et douloureux de cette figure de proue de la pensée contemporaine et met en valeur l'aspect visionnaire de son œuvre. Simone Weil, entre la rigueur et la grâce.

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[Montréal] : Fides

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2762125081

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9782762125085

October Blood

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

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October Blood

By: Francine du Plessix Gray

In "October Blood," the ever-fashionable Francine du Plessix Gray turns her novelistic attention to the most fashionable of current topics, the mother-and-daughter pair.

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It's Modern.

The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman

By: Charles Churchward

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It's Modern.

The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman

By: Charles Churchward

This gorgeous volume celebrates the creative eye and inspiration of the man who, through his art, photography, design, magazine work, and social life, influenced and changed our visual culture. This visually rich volume presents, for the first time side by side, the commercial work and artwork of Alexander Liberman. Liberman was not only one of the world’s most powerful editorial art directors, he was also a respected photographer, artist, and graphic designer. His personal exploration and relationships through these mediums shaped his own artistic vision that would alter the relationship of art, design, and fashion forever. In the early ’40s, he became art director of Vogue, and then editorial director for Condé Nast Publications from 1960 to 1994. His transformation of Vogue from a stately publication to the bold and lively publication that it is today forever changed the way women and men viewed fashion and style. It’s Modern is a vibrant volume that pairs Liberman’s professional efforts with his personal artwork and design. This juxtaposition, along with personal archival photographs and texts, artworks, and photographs by iconic friends and collaborators, builds a complete portrait of a genius whose personal life and inspirations were as fascinating as his artwork. With works by Matisse, Beaton, Leibovitz, Newton, Ritts, Brassaï, Parks, Horst, Picasso, Avedon, and Penn, this engaging book is a must for lovers of fashion, art, magazines, graphic design, or photography.

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Rizzoli Publications

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0847840719

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9780847840717

October Blood

By: Fancine Gray

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October Blood

By: Fancine Gray

The saga of three generations of women and their high-fashion magazine centers on Paula Fitzsimmons, through whose eyes is seen the startling world of her mother, her husband, her daughter, and her lover

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Ballantine Books

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0345336836

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9780345336835

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