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The fame lunches, on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags, Daphne Merkin

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The fame lunches, on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags, Daphne Merkin

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The fame lunches

Oclc number

866803562

Responsibility statement

Daphne Merkin

Sub title

on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags

Summary

"A collection of essays on everything from handbags to John Updike, lip gloss to Michael Jackson, and everything in between"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Stardust and ashes. The fame lunches ; Platinum pain (Marilyn Monroe) ; Locked in the playground (Michael Jackson) ; Gidget doesn't live here anymore (Sandra Dee) ; The mystery of Dr. B (Bruno Bettelheim) ; Hunting Diana (Princess Diana) ; The peaceful pugilist (Mike Tyson) ; In warm blood (Truman Capote) ; Endless love (Courtney Love) ; Days of brilliant clarity (Richard Burton) -- Skin-deep. Against lip gloss or, New notes on camp ; In my head I'm always thin ; The Yom Kippur pedicure ; The unbearable obsolescence of girdles ; Brace yourself ; Android beauty -- Out of print. Freud without tears (Adam Phillips) ; Bloomsbury becomes me (Lytton Strachey) ; The loose, drifting material of life (Virginia Woolf) ; Moping on the moors (The Brontë sisters) ; The lady vanquished (Jean Rhys) ; Last tango (Anne Carson) ; Dust-to-dustness (W.G. Sebald) ; Portrait of the artist as a fiasco (Henry Roth) ; A tip of the hat (John Updike) -- Higher values. When a bag is not just a bag ; A fashionable mind ; Our money, ourselves ; Let the fur fly ; Marketing mysticism -- Women in the singular. An independent woman (Liv Ullmann) ; Sleeping alone (Diane Keaton) ; What the camera sees in her (Cate Blanchett) ; A thorny Irish rose (Nuala O'Faolain) ; Illuminating the ordinary (Alice Munro) ; That British dame (Margaret Drabble) ; Sister act (Betty Friedan) -- The mating game. Life on a dare (Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald) ; On not learning to flirt ; Glass house (J.D. Salinger and Joyce Maynard) ; So not a fag hag ; A matched pair (Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath) ; The consolations of thread count ; Can this divorce be saved? ; Brilliant monsters (V.S. Naipaul) ; Do I own you now?

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