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Bloomsbury Lives of Women – serie

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5 produkter

  1. Andrew Wilson - Beautiful Shadow, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Beautiful Shadow

    A Life of Patricia Highsmith

    Av Andrew Wilson

    Häftad, 2010

    198 kr

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    Patricia Highsmith - author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, …

  2. Axel Madsen - Coco Chanel, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Coco Chanel

    A Biography

    Av Axel Madsen

    Häftad, 2009

    198 kr

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    Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roue, Boy Capel; a French poet; and, a German spy and the …

  3. Lee Server - Ava Gardner, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Ava Gardner

    Av Lee Server

    Häftad, 2010

    221 kr

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    Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes …

  4. Laura Claridge - Tamara De Lempicka, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Tamara De Lempicka

    Av Laura Claridge

    Häftad, 2010

    232 kr

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    Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. Her paintings, like the artist herself, glow with beauty and sexuality. …

  5. Lilian Pizzichini - Blue Hour, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Blue Hour

    A Portrait of Jean Rhys

    Av Lilian Pizzichini

    Häftad, 2010

    215 kr

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    Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, "Wide Sargasso Sea". But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in …