TY  - BOOK
AU  - Léger,Nathalie
AU  - Lehrer,Natasha
TI  - The white dress
SN  - 9781948980050
PY  - 2020///
CY  - St. Louis, MO
PB  - Dorothy, A Publishing Project
KW  - Women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Performance art
N2  - 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
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