Them

At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian emigres who consorted with Dali and Dietrich and told American women how to look, where to travel, and what to read. As told by their daughter, the distinguished writer Francine du Plessix Gray, their saga combines romance, glamour, and pathos. Their adulation for success was as obsessive as their fierce, neurotic love for each other, and they treated everyone else—including Francine—with ruthless opportunism. Them is a work of Tolstoyan emotional power as well as a brilliant social history of its subjects' age.

First sentence: I have an extremely fertile dream life, and a decade ago, upon the fourth anniversary of my mother's death, I had a powerful dream about her.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Editions

4

Pages

544

ISBN

9780143037194

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