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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy de Elizabeth Beller

Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Autor Elizabeth Beller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iul 2024

Imagineați-vă o seară de vară în Manhattan, anul 1999: lumina blițurilor paparazzi orbește un cuplu care încearcă pur și simplu să ajungă la mașină. Pentru lumea întreagă, ea era silueta distantă, „prințesa de gheață” care l-a cucerit pe cel mai râvnit burlac al Americii. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Elizabeth Beller reușește, în Once Upon a Time, să spargă această vitrină de sticlă pentru a ne arăta femeia reală, dincolo de mitul tragic și de titlurile senzaționaliste ale tabloidelor. Această biografie contează deoarece îi redă lui Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy propria voce și identitate, una care a existat mult înainte de a deveni o Kennedy și care a fost adesea ignorată sub greutatea numelui soțului ei.

Apreciem rigoarea cu care autoarea reconstituie parcursul profesional al lui Carolyn la Calvin Klein, unde nu era doar o figură decorativă, ci un motor creativ într-o eră de aur a modei minimaliste. Ca și What Remains de Carole Radziwill, această biografie transformă documentele reci și amintirile fragmentate într-o narațiune fluidă și intimă. Totuși, dacă memoriile lui Radziwill sunt subiective și emoționale, Once Upon a Time adoptă o perspectivă jurnalistică documentată, oferind o contrapondere necesară portretelor pur estetice, precum cel din CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy de Sunita Nair.

Citind paginile acestei cărți, descoperim o femeie „fabulos de feroce”, dar și vulnerabilă în fața unei campanii de hărțuire media care astăzi ar fi etichetată drept misoginie pură. Ritmul este alert, susținut de mărturii inedite ale celor care au cunoscut-o cu adevărat, oferind o experiență de lectură care echilibrează melancolia unei vieți curmate prematur cu celebrarea unei personalități formidabile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781982178963
ISBN-10: 1982178965
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 16-pg 4-c insert
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Gallery Books
Colecția Gallery Books

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Recomandăm această carte celor fascinați de istoria modernă a familiei Kennedy și pasionaților de cultura modei din anii '90. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra unei figuri emblematice, înțelegând presiunea imensă a celebrității și forța unei femei care a refuzat să fie definită doar prin mariajul său. Este o lectură esențială pentru a trece dincolo de suprafața fotografiilor de tip street-style în profunzimea unui destin uman complex.

Despre autor

Elizabeth Beller este o scriitoare și cercetătoare cu o experiență vastă în analiza figurilor culturale iconice. Pentru volumul Once Upon a Time, ea a petrecut ani documentând viața lui Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, realizând interviuri în premieră cu cercul intim al acesteia, de la foști profesori la colegi de la Calvin Klein. Abordarea sa se distinge prin empatie și rigoare factologică, reușind să scoată la lumină detalii despre viața timpurie și ambițiile profesionale ale subiectului său, elemente care fuseseră anterior eclipsate de aura tragică a numelui Kennedy.

Descriere scurtă

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted.

A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.

Amidst today’s cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, Elizabeth Beller explores the real person behind the tabloid headlines and media frenzy. When she began dating America’s prince, Carolyn was increasingly thrust into an overwhelming spotlight filled with relentless paparazzi who reacted to her reserve with a campaign of harassment and vilification.

To this day, she is still depicted as a privileged princess—icy, vapid, and drug-addicted. She has even been accused of being responsible for their untimely death, allegedly delaying take-off until she finished her pedicure. But now, she is revealed as never before.

A fiercely independent woman devoted to her adopted city and career, Carolyn relied on her impeccable eye and drive to fly up the ranks at Calvin Klein in the glossy, high-stakes fashion world of the 1990s. When Carolyn met her future husband, John was immediately drawn to her strong-willed personality, effortless charm, and high intelligence. Their relationship would change her life and catapult her to dizzying fame, but it was her vibrant life before their marriage and then hidden afterwards, that is truly fascinating.

Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multi-faceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Beller is a writer and journalist specializing in culture, art, and travel with more than fifteen years of experience as a book and story editor. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, and Travel + Leisure, among other outlets. Before turning to writing and editing, she spent two years as a script reader for Miramax, followed by twelve years in the art world at Sotheby’s Auction House. She splits her time between New York and New Orleans with her husband, writer Thomas Beller, and their two children.

Recenzii

* New York Times Bestseller * LA Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller *
"A book that is as alluring and intriguing as its subject, Once Upon a Time is a marvelous read. We all 'know' Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, but we don't really know her. Now, with Beller's book, this charismatic, iconic woman becomes real, which makes her tragedy that much more painful. This is a book you will gobble up."
–Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book and The Orchid Thief

“Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of Jackie’s son, John, has always been such an enigma–until now. In Once Upon a Time, Elizabeth Beller reveals the true woman behind the mystery, and what a woman she turns out to be: fabulous, fierce, fashionable, flawed… formidable. Despite its sad ending, Carolyn’s journey as told on these pages somehow still feels like a triumph.”
–J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

“Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s Yohji Yamamoto wraps and Calvin Klein suits told us more about the insatiable appetites of a voracious public than they revealed about the woman who wore them. But now, she is unveiled as never before: the woman who was so much more than a fashion icon and a famous wife.”
–Robin Givhan, Pulitzer Prize winning fashion journalist and author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History

“Once Upon a Time is an intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was.”
–Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

“Composed with ineffable poignancy, Once Upon a Time reveals Bessette-Kennedy’s existence beyond just being the wife of a beloved presidential son. Interweaving the chilling storyline of the violations by paparazzi who turned Bessette-Kennedy into their ‘favorite victim,’ making her world smaller and provoking her into a cycle of crisis, Beller so starkly demonstrates that ‘fear led Carolyn to hide away, something completely at odds with her personality.’”
–Carl Sferrazza Anthony, author of Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

"In this heartbreaking biography, Elizabeth Beller has captured the life and milieu of the most glamorous couple of the 1990s."
–Edmund White, bestselling author of A Boy's Own Story and The Humble Lover
"The absorbing biography isn’t without juicy moments, but also doesn’t rely on sensationalism to make the case for Bessette-Kennedy’s importance; it’s a nuanced, complicated book about a person who had similar qualities, and it’s a must read for anyone who wants to go beyond the surface of a story that’s captivated the world for more than two decades."
–Town & Country

"Once Upon a Time wants us to know that, through it all, they were meant to be."
–New York Times

"Beller, writing into a world, and an America, at war with itself, is wiser than to lean on legend. She leans instead on grace, and forgiveness, for a woman who lived inside 'the imposition of a narrative line on disparate images.'"
–Air Mail

"Twenty-five years after her death in a plane crash, a new book, Once Upon a Time, delves adoringly into the life story of JFK Jr.'s late wife."
–Washington Post

"A sensitive portrait of a misunderstood public figure."
–Kirkus

Descriere

The first comprehensive biography of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. and New York fashion icon, who died with him in a tragic Martha’s Vineyard plane crash twenty-five years ago. Featuring never-before-heard stories of her Westchester childhood, relationship with her estranged father, her teen years in Greenwich, her time at Boston University, her rise through the ranks of New York's fashion scene, and her highly publicized relationship with "America's prince.”