The Price of Illusion by Joan Juliet Buck
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris--If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you'll adore The Price of Illusion (Elle). In a book as rich and dramatic as the life she's led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film, fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the artifice. The only child of a volatile movie producer betrayed by his dreams, she became a magazine journalist at nineteen to reflect and record the high life she'd been brought up in, a choice that led her into a hall of mirrors where she was both magician and dupe. After a career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair, she was named the first American woman to edit Vogue Paris. The vivid adventures of this thoughtful, incisive writer at the hub of dreams across two continents over fifty years are hilarious and heartbreaking. Including a spectacular cast of carefully observed legends, monsters, and stars (just look at the index ), this is the moving account of a remarkable woman's rocky passage through glamour and passion, filial duty and family madness, in search of her true self.
Joan Juliet Buck is an American novelist, critic, essayist, and editor. She served as editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001. While a contributing editor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, Traveler and The New Yorker, she wrote two novels, The Only Place to Be and Daughter of the Swan. Currently, she is the consulting editor to Dasha Zhukova's art and fashion magazine, Garage, and writes for W, Harper's Bazaar, and New York Times T magazine. Abigail Solomon-Godeau is Professor Emerita from the University of California, Santa Barbara and now lives in Paris. She is the author of Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices (1992); Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (1997); Birgit Jurgenssen, coauthored with Gabriele Schor (2011); and Rosemary Laing (2012). Her essays on photography, contemporary art, and feminism have appeared in journals such as Afterimage, Art in America, Aperture, Artforum, and October and have been widely translated and anthologized.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476762944 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476762945 |
| Title | The Price of Illusion |
| Author | Joan Juliet Buck |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atria Books |
| Year published | 2017-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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