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Jackie Under My Skin
Interpreting an Icon
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Jackie Under My Skin
$11.99
About This Book
Book Details
Jackie Under My Skin is a nuanced description of how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. As Wayne Koestenbaum follows her into America's dreamwork, far from pious "family values," he dares to see her as a pleasure principle, a figure of Circean extravagance, and liberates her from the propagandistic uses to which her image if often harnessed.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781466852822
In The News
“Pop interpretation at its finest . . . and every bit of it is fun to read.” —The Boston Globe
“Dazzling, exuberant . . . Koestenbaum writes with a heady lyricism that makes Jackie-watching an exercise of the soul as well as of the intellect.” —New York Magazine
“Koestenbaum's explanation of the Jackie O phenomenon is as fresh and thought-provoking as they come.” —Los Angeles Times
“Some of the most entertaining prose in years . . . A thoughtful and unexpectedly moving book.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Impassioned insight . . . By turns comic and elegaic, respectful and blasphemous...little or nothing escapes [Koestenbaum's] gaze.” —Newsday
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Jackie Under My Skin