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A Scrapbook Memoir
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2011
On Sale: October 11, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0374266611
EAN: 9780374266615
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable
for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has
known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest
artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary
scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging
from diary entries to her many contributions to the art
journal L’OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result is a
multifaceted self-portrait of a life informed and surrounded
by the arts. Through the stories of her encounters with some of the
twentieth century’s great artists and composers—including
Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copeland,
Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeld—we come to understand the
sheer richness of Bernier’s experiences, interactions, and
memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wise—a richly
rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.
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