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Three Lives
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
July 2012
On Sale: July 17, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 0374176493
EAN: 9780374176495
Kindle: B007TJ1CGQ
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Non-Fiction Biography
Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who
dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of
conversation. But she never finished the books she was
contracted to write—a painful failure and yet a kind of
achievement.
The quintessential fan, Mercedes de
Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses
and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy
lies in the thousands of objects she collected to preserve
the memory of those performers and to honor the feelings
they inspired.
An icon of haute couture and a fashion
editor of British Vogue, Madge Garland held bracing
views on dress that drew on her feminism, her ideas about
modernity, and her love of women. Existing both vividly and
invisibly at the center of cultural life, she—like Murphy
and de Acosta—is now almost completely forgotten.
In
All We Know, Lisa Cohen describes these women’s
glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial
personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series
of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into
style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography
itself, All We Know explores a hidden history of
modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives.
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