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The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Ruth Franscisco
St. Martin's Press
February 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 031233799X
Hardcover
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Who was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? She was a wife, mother,
artist, editor, and world traveler. A bright young woman who
rose to unparalleled celebrity. One of the world's most
inspiring and influential women of her day, she has become
arguably the most important female icon of all time. Yet she
also was a woman of passion and deep emotions, who wanted to
experience all that life had to give. How did she feel about
it all? She never told.
Jackie said quite famously,
"I want to live my life, not record it." Jackie remains
elusive, her interior life hidden, her soul masked behind
sunglasses and an enigmatic smile. For the first time, these
fictional memoirs tell Jackie's story in Jackie's voice�with
all her joy and wit, grief and bitterness, gentleness and
fortitude.
Ruth Francisco boldly plunges into the
subtext of Jackie's public life, psychology, and sexuality,
beyond her dazzling mythic exterior, reimagining Jackie's
feelings and thoughts between the lines of recorded history.
In this riveting epic tale, we follow Jackie's journey from
her privileged yet wrenching youth, through the exaltation
and suffering of her marriage to John F. Kennedy, to the
shattering despair of her losses, exile, and loneliness. As
she learns to forgive her jealous rival, Maria Callas, and
her abusive second husband, Aristotle Onassis, Jackie begins
to find redemption, ultimately discovering peace through her
children and her work.
Powerful, poignant, and
inspiring, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis is a sweeping novel, a mythic fable of the
trials and tribulations of the female soul.
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