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Peggy a novel

"Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoc...

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Main Authors: Godfrey, Rebecca (Author), Jamison, Leslie, 1983- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Guggenheim, Peggy, > 1898-1979 > Fiction.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Fiction.
Heiresses > Fiction.
Jewish women > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father goes down with the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom, and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and antisemitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money), while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Throughout, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune"--
Physical Description:366 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780385538282
0385538286
Author Notes:Rebecca Margot Godfrey, author, journalist, editor and teacher, was born on December 2, 1967, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She began her career as a journalist and editor. She worked in Toronto and New York. Her first novel, The Torn Skirt, was published in 2001. Her second book was nonfiction. Under the Bridge, was published in 2005. It received British Columbia's National Award for Nonfiction in 2006. Godfrey was also an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University. She taught fiction workshops and a seminar on Anti-Heroines in literature. Rebecca Godfrey died on October 3, 2022, in New York City, from lung cancer. She was 54.

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