The white dress / Nathalie Léger ; translated by Natasha Lehrer.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First U. S. EditionDescription: 123 pages ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781948980050
- 1948980053
- Robe blanche. English.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | LEGER, NATHALIE | Available | 33111010413132 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The third in Nathalie Léger's acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists.
The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Léger's award-winning triptych of books about women who "through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery" ( ELLE ). In Exposition , Léger wrote about the Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman of the nineteenth century; in Suite for Barbara Loden she took up the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden; here, Léger grapples with the tragic 2008 death of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered while hiking from Italy to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. A harrowing meditation on the risks women encounter, in life and in art, The White Dress also brings to a haunting conclusion Léger's personal interrogation--sustained across all three books--of her relationship with her mother and the desire for justice in our lives.
In English, translated from French.
The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Léger's award-winning triptych of books about women who "through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery" (Elle). In Exposition, Léger wrote about the Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman of the nineteenth century; in Suite for Barbara Loden she took up the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden; here, Léger grapples with the tragic 2008 death of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered while hiking from Italy to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. A harrowing meditation on the risks women encounter, in life and in art, The White Dress also brings to a haunting conclusion Léger's personal interrogation--sustained across all three books--of her relationship with her mother and of the desire for justice in our lives.