Book
Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret / Craig Brown.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374906047
- Physical Description: 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in 2017 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Great Britain, as Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002. Princesses > Great Britain > Biography. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibsons Public Library | 941.085 BROW (Text) | 30886001058938 | Adult Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author of Hello Goodbye Hello shares a portrait of the sister of Elizabeth II that draws on eclectic sources to explore her controversial relationships, the contradictory aspects attributed to her character and the tragedies that overshadowed her life. - Baker & Taylor
Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays on Princess Margaret, the author offers a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemiaand high society. - McMillan Palgrave
âRollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflixâs The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.â âHamish Bowles, Vogue
âNinety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat.â âAnna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal
âI ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaretâs misbehavior . . . to those who gawked at her, who huddled around her, pens poised over their diaries, hoping for the show she never denied them.â âParul Sehgal, The New York Times
âBrown has done something astonishing: He makes the reader care, even sympathize, with perhaps the last subject worthy of such affection . . . His book is big fun, equal measures insightful and hysterical.â âKaren Heller, The Washington Post
A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royal
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy.
Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950s heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death in 2002, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.
Such an enigmatic and divisive figure demands a reckoning that is far from the usual fare. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues, and essays, Craig Brownâs Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.
