The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee - Tapa blanda

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters

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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 336 pages. A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy acc ount of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else-Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill-from the authors o f Furious Love. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept i nconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee d iscovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family memb ers, friends, and employees-but nothing to her. I have made no pr ovision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime, read Jackie's final testament. Drawing on the authors' candid interviews with Lee Radziwill, The Fabulous Bouvier Siste rs explores their complicated relationship, placing them at the c enter of twentieth-century fashion, design, and style. In life, Jackie and Lee were alike in so many ways. Both women had a keen eye for beauty-in fashion, design, painting, music, dance, sculpt ure, poetry-and both were talented artists. Both loved pre-revolu tionary Russian culture, and the blinding sunlight, calm seas, an d ancient olive groves of Greece. Both loved the siren call of th e Atlantic, sharing sweet, early memories of swimming with the ra kish father they adored, Jack Vernou Bouvier, at his East Hampton retreat. But Jackie was her father's favorite, and Lee, her moth er's. One would grow to become the most iconic woman of her time, while the other lived in her shadow. As they grew up, the two si sters developed an extremely close relationship threaded with riv alry, jealousy, and competition. Yet it was probably the most imp ortant relationship of their lives. For the first time, Vanity F air contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nanc y Schoenberger tell the complete story of these larger-than-life sisters. Drawing on new information and extensive interviews with Lee, now eighty-four, this dual biography sheds light on the pub lic and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived throug h immense tragedy in enormous glamour. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2150a

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