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My mother, Schiaparelli, and me

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An edition of Shocked (2013)

Shocked

My mother, Schiaparelli, and me

First edition.
  • 2 Want to read

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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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
283

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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Apr 22, 2014, Vintage
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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
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Shocked: My mother, Schiaparelli, and me
2013, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - First edition.

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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.

Edition Notes

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
746.9/20922, B
Library of Congress
TT505.S3 V65 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 283 pages
Number of pages
283

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27142839M
Internet Archive
shockedmymothers0000volk
ISBN 10
0307962105, 0307962113
ISBN 13
9780307962102, 9780307962119
LCCN
2012034922
OCLC/WorldCat
800039438

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