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Peggy : a novel
(based on Goodreads ratings)Published 2024 by Random House, New York
ISBN 9780385538282
Bib Id 1454977
Edition First edition.
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cam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2024011719
ISBN
9780385538282 acid-free paper) $29.00
0385538286
Call #
FIC Godfrey
Author
Title
Peggy : a novel
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
2024 by Random House, New York :
Description
pages cm
Summary
"Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father goes down with the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom, and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and antisemitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money), while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Throughout, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune"--
Genre/Form
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Novels
Biographical fiction.
Novels
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