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Choqué : Ma mère, Schiaparelli, and Me couverture rigide Patricia Volk
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- Publication Name
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780307962102
- Book Title
- Shocked : My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Design, Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, Social Science
- Topic
- Women, Beauty & Grooming, Fashion & Accessories, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives--the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother--to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli--"Schiap"--the haute couture designer whose creations shocked the world, blurred the line between fashion and art, and believed that everything, even a button, has the potential to delight. Audrey's daughter Patricia read Schiap's autobiography, Shocking Life, at a tender age, and was transformed by it. These two women--volatile, opinionated, and brilliant each in her own way--offered Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that allowed her to plot her own course. Moving seamlessly between the Volks' Manhattan and Florida milieux and Schiap's life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dalí, Duchamp, and Picasso), Shocked weaves Audrey's traditional notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli's often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled, meditation on beauty, and on being a daughter, sister, and mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307962105
ISBN-13
9780307962102
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117270885
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shocked : My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Beauty & Grooming, Fashion & Accessories, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Design, Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
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Reviews
"An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patty Volk is a wonder, and this memoir as charming, quirky, and wise as her larger-than-life mother." -Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life "It's a pure joy to be in Patricia Volk's presence on the pages of her new book, Shocked . A diptych portrayal of her gorgeous and infuriating mother and the great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, this is an irresistible tour de force that puts on display Volk's intelligence, wit and sparkling prose." -Louis Begley, "Witty, tender and vividly nostalgic. . . . a spirited account of how an encounter with a memoir by couturier Elsa Schiaparelli transformed a young girl's view of what it meant to be a woman. Volk adored her movie-star gorgeous mother Audrey. However, even as a child, she could never quite countenance the 'blind adherence to the mystifying virtue of 'seemly' (female) behavior' that Audrey demanded of her. She unexpectedly found [a] more subversive model for feminine behavior in Schiaparelli, whose autobiography Volk read at age 10. Like the author, 'Schiap' was a much-loved child. . . . [and] no great beauty, something Volk also understood. Yet she still managed to create an enduring legacy as an avant-garde fashion designer . . . Schiaparelli's remarkable story provided Volk the 'shock' she needed to grow away from Audrey's certitudes-about everything from clothes to men to life itself-and into her own, unique sensibilities. . . . Generously illustrated with images from the two worlds Volk depicts, the narrative that emerges from Volk's deft interweaving of lives is as sharp-eyed as it is wickedly funny. Her attention to detail, especially in her evocations of 1950s New York, is nothing short of delicious." - Kirkus "This daring and irresistible catalog of the secrets of women cements Volk's reputation as one of our most amusing writers. What in academic circles might be called 'the construction of gender' is here brought vividly and hilariously to life. If God is in the details, then this is one of the godliest books I've read in ages, because the details are priceless." -Phillip Lopate "You have to be very grown up to write a memoir as wise as Shocked . It helps to have a prose style as supple, elegant, witty, and modest as Patricia Volk's. This is a truthful, wholly original portrayal of mother-daughter love, and (incidentally) of the joys and limitations of a passion for fashion. It deserves to become a classic." -Kennedy Fraser "Volk expresses a touch of heroine-worship for both her mother's glamorous pragmatism and Elsa Schiaparelli's functional extravagance. The women make an unlikely pair, but Volk's nostalgic voice wisely integrates the best of them both. It does so with such engaging generosity and kindness that this funny, melancholic memoir ultimately feels like an embrace." -Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree "An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patricia Volk is a wonder, and this memoir is as charming and wise as her larger-than-life mother." -Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life "It's a pure joy to be in Patricia Volk's presence on the pages of her new book, Shocked . A diptych portrayal of her gorgeous and infuriating mother and the great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, this is an irresistible tour de force that puts on display Volk's intelligence, wit and sparkling prose." -Louis Begley, "This daring and irresistible catalog of the secrets of women cements Volk's reputation as one of our most amusing writers. What in academic circles might be called 'the construction of gender' is here brought vividly and hilariously to life. If God is in the details, then this is one of the godliest books I've read in ages, because the details are priceless." -Phillip Lopate "You have to be very grown up to write a memoir as wise as Shocked . It helps to have a prose style as supple, elegant, witty, and modest as Patricia Volk's. This is a truthful, wholly original portrayal of mother-daughter love, and (incidentally) of the joys and limitations of a passion for fashion. It deserves to become a classic." -Kennedy Fraser "Volk expresses a touch of heroine-worship for both her mother's glamorous pragmatism and Elsa Schiaparelli's functional extravagance. The women make an unlikely pair, but Volk's nostalgic voice wisely integrates the best of them both. It does so with such engaging generosity and kindness that this funny, melancholic memoir ultimately feels like an embrace." -Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree "An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patricia Volk is a wonder, and this memoir is as charming and wise as her larger-than-life mother." -Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life "It's a pure joy to be in Patricia Volk's presence on the pages of her new book, Shocked . A diptych portrayal of her gorgeous and infuriating mother and the great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, this is an irresistible tour de force that puts on display Volk's intelligence, wit and sparkling prose." -Louis Begley, "Volk has a talent for unearthing meaning in the seemingly mundane. She works off the theory that everyone reads one influential book before puberty that leaves an indelible mark. Hers was Shocking Life, outré fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli's memoir, filched from a shelf before her voracious reader of a mother (deemed beautiful by everyone from the dentist to the hostess at Schrafft's) could return it to the Upper West Side bookstore where she 'rented' books. This is no soft-focus hagiography, however. Volk is cheerfully honest about her mother's concern with what others think of her, and she bluntly calls Schiaparelli 'a terrible mother.' Including both personal photographs and depictions of Schiaparelli inventions such as women's underpants that didn't require ironing, this memoir is a compelling tribute to two ambitious women who were way ahead of their time." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Witty, tender and vividly nostalgic. . . . a spirited account of how an encounter with a memoir by couturier Elsa Schiaparelli transformed a young girl's view of what it meant to be a woman. Volk adored her movie-star gorgeous mother Audrey. However, even as a child, she could never quite countenance the 'blind adherence to the mystifying virtue of 'seemly' (female) behavior' that Audrey demanded of her. She unexpectedly found [a] more subversive model for feminine behavior in Schiaparelli, whose autobiography Volk read at age 10. Like the author, 'Schiap' was a much-loved child. . . . [and] no great beauty, something Volk also understood. Yet she still managed to create an enduring legacy as an avant-garde fashion designer . . . Schiaparelli's remarkable story provided Volk the 'shock' she needed to grow away from Audrey's certitudes-about everything from clothes to men to life itself-and into her own, unique sensibilities. . . . Generously illustrated with images from the two worlds Volk depicts, the narrative that emerges from Volk's deft interweaving of lives is as sharp-eyed as it is wickedly funny. Her attention to detail, especially in her evocations of 1950s New York, is nothing short of delicious." - Kirkus "This daring and irresistible catalog of the secrets of women cements Volk's reputation as one of our most amusing writers. What in academic circles might be called 'the construction of gender' is here brought vividly and hilariously to life. If God is in the details, then this is one of the godliest books I've read in ages, because the details are priceless." -Phillip Lopate "You have to be very grown up to write a memoir as wise as Shocked . It helps to have a prose style as supple, elegant, witty, and modest as Patricia Volk's. This is a truthful, wholly original portrayal of mother-daughter love, and (incidentally) of the joys and limitations of a passion for fashion. It deserves to become a classic." -Kennedy Fraser "Volk expresses a touch of heroine-worship for both her mother's glamorous pragmatism and Elsa Schiaparelli's functional extravagance. The women make an unlikely pair, but Volk's nostalgic voice wisely integrates the best of them both. It does so with such engaging generosity and kindness that this funny, melancholic memoir ultimately feels like an embrace." -Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree "An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patricia Volk is a wonder, and this memoir is as charming and wise as her larger-than-life mother." -Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life "It's a pure joy to be in Patricia Volk's presence on the pages of her new book, Shocked . A diptych portrayal of her gorgeous and infuriating mother and the great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, this is an irresistible tour de force that puts on display Volk's intelligence, wit and sparkling prose." -Louis Begley
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Title shocked draws you in, especially schiaperelli related
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