{"product_id":"books-all-we-know-by-lisa-cohen","title":"All We Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e is one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly'\u003c\/i\u003es Top 10 Best Books of 2012\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A revelatory biography of three glamorous, complex modern women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write--a painful failure, and yet a kind of achievement.\u003cbr\u003e The quintessential fan, Mercedes de Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy is the thousands of objects she collected to preserve the memory of those performers and to document her own feelings.\u003cbr\u003e An icon of haute couture and an editor of British \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, Madge Garland held influential views on fashion that drew on her feminism, her ideas about modernity, and her love of women. Existing both vividly and invisibly at the center of culture, she--like Murphy and de Acosta--is now almost completely forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute In \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670856753425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374534486.jpg?v=1781513320","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-all-we-know-by-lisa-cohen","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}