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Gioia Diliberto

Auteur van I Am Madame X

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Gioia Diliberto is the author of the biographies Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams, and Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier and the novels I Am Madame X and The Collection. Named one of Bustle's "11 Women In Nonfiction Who toon meer Are Totally Killing It" in 2015, her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, and she is a visiting lecturer in writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and DePaul University. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. toon minder
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I read this biography of Hemingway's first wife when it came out in 2000 and I really enjoyed it. Wish I still owned a copy because I'd like to re-read parts of it now. My Mom also read it back then and we agreed that it gave readers a fresh, new way of seeing both Hemingway and his writing. I just now (2010) finished Hemingway's The Garden of Eden and had flash backs to reading Hadley. This is a spoiler, but one of the revelations in Hadley was that Hadley and Hemingway played around with gender roles in the bedroom and also got the same haircut at one point. The Garden of Eden seems to use those experience, albeit in a rather dark way.… (meer)
 
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Chris.Wolak | 7 andere besprekingen | Oct 13, 2022 |
Coco Chanel is remembered today as a fashion icon and strong businesswoman, who redefined feminine chic and built a world-famous design brand. But Chanel was a complex character with a darker side.

Gioia Diliberto’s new novel is based on the true story of Chanel's war-time romance with a German spy and how that affair led to her arrest for treason following the Liberation of Paris. The story is fascinating in how it neither glorifies nor demonizes Chanel, but portrays her honestly, as a 60-year-old woman desperate to preserve a semblance of her pre-war life even if it meant deceiving herself and lying to her friends – and her interrogators.

Coco at the Ritz is historical fiction at its page-turning best.
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RoseCityReader | May 27, 2022 |
This is a novel of historical fiction, about John Singer Sargent's model Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau who posed for the painting called "Portrait of Madame X" hanging in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Little survived about Madame Gautreau's life, so Diliberto developed a story based on what facts are known, plus what she imagined might have occurred. It was an interesting story of Parisian life at the end of the 19th Century, and about the famous painting, model, and artist.
 
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rsutto22 | 8 andere besprekingen | Jul 15, 2021 |
I really enjoyed this historical fiction account of Madame X, the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting. Now I want to go to the Met to see it in person!!
 
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½ 3.5
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34
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