Jackie Under My Skin
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780786204861
Hardcover|9780786204861
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Jackie Under My Skin is a richly original and fascinating investigation into how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. For thirty years we have lived with our internalized images of Jackie, but until now no writer has definitively explored what it feels like to exist in imaginative and heartfelt connection to this ubiquitous icon. In an elegiac gallery of fantasies and tableaux, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by anatomizing the myths and metaphors that have attached to her. Analyzing her iconography with both passion and precision, he places stories about Jackie - and photos of Jackie - within the context of literature, film, and the idiosyncratic imagination. Following her into America's dreamwork, far from pious family values, Wayne Koestenbaum dares to see her as an embodiment of pleasure, a figure of Circean extravagance, and a unique and necessary emblem of that most exhilarating of pursuits: freedom without responsibility.
| ISBN-13 | 9780786204861 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0786204869 |
| Weight | 1.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.00 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 400 pages |
| Publisher | Thorndike Pr |
| Published On | 1995-08-01 |
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