Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis is a symbol of an entire era, one of the most mysterious and extraordinary women of the XNUMXth century.
“Behind the Glossy Facade” is a kind of duet between the author and her heroine. Frenchwoman Catherine Pancol — a journalist, professor of philology and one of the most widely read writers in the world — at the age of nineteen became famous for her very first novel and since then has not tired of exciting, disturbing and captivating the reader with new stories — fantastic and reliable, ironic and bitter at the same time. American Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis is a symbol of an entire era, one of the most mysterious and extraordinary women of the twentieth century. From the collision of these two unique individuals, a book is born that is not inferior in brightness to both of them. «Behind the Glossy Facade» is a large psychological essay, an attempt to reconstruct the inner world of Jackie Kennedy, which she so carefully guarded from an outside observer throughout her life. Crazy love for her father — a charming rake — and a severe trauma inflicted by little Jacqueline by the divorce of her parents, a rebellion against the cramped and stuffy bourgeois world in which she happened to grow up, a difficult relationship with her first husband — John F. Kennedy, the piercing and painful joy of motherhood, the black years of widowhood and quiet sunset happiness in a second marriage with the Greek millionaire Aristotle Onassis — Catherine Pancol writes about all this with inspired persuasiveness that affects the reader’s emotions much more than the dry facts of traditional biographies.
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