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Gini Alhadeff was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Italian parents, and left with her family in 1956, at the start of the Suez Canal crisis. In 1961, the family moved to Tokyo and there, at the Sacred Heart, she learned English. At 15, she entered the Poggio Imperiale boarding school in Florence. toon meer After graduating, she studied fine art and photography at Harrow, England, and at Pratt Institute in New York. She worked at The Museum of Modern Art, did translations from Italian and French into English, and was employed by two designers in Milan before becoming a freelance writer, a features editor at American Elle, and founding the literary reviews, Normal and XXIst century in New York. toon minder

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The thing I enjoyed most about this book were the multiple times the author used opposites to describe the same thing/situation: "proof of my significance and so, inevitably, of my insignificance", "a piece of clothing off a rack is for a standard body, therefore for nobody, since no body is standard".
This was NOT my favorite book. I found it very hard to read and understand what was going on. It was less of a story and more character musings, not a problem in itself, but this one didn't grab me. The final 20 or so pages were the best -- I think a whole book could have been written on the relationship between the main character and Princess and that it could have been flushed out more directly.… (meer)
 
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