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From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir that juxtaposes two fascinating lives -- the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker -- to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.
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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Aug 01, 2013, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio
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Table of Contents
chapter one. Mirrors
chapter two. "The from above"
chapter three. A ring and a mink
chapter four. Something in common
chapter five. Gambling
chapter six. Manner of dress
chapter seven. The womanly arts
chapter eight. Friendship
chapter nine. Lingerie
chapter ten. Gainful employment
chapter eleven. The vicissitudes of beauty
chapter twelve. Improving the mind
chapter thirteen. Sex
chapter fourteen. Choosing a husband
chapter fifteen. Being a mother
chapter sixteen. Superstition
chapter seventeen. The Bogolometz
chapter eighteen. Reckoning
chapter nineteen. Through the looking glass
chapter twenty. Reflection.
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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
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