Jackie Under My Skin Interpreting An Icon
Koestenbaum, Wayne.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux,
Date Published: 1995.
Description: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 291 pages with selected bibliography. The book is in FINE condition. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor edge/shelf wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Dust jacket notes read: "Jackie Under My Skin is a richly original and fascinating investigation into how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. For thirty years we have lived with our internalized images of "Jackie," but until now no writer has definitively explored what it feels like to exist in imaginative and heartfelt connection to this ubiquitous icon. In an elegiac gallery of fantasies and tableaux, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by anatomizing the myths and metaphors that have attached to her. Analyzing her iconography with both passion and precision, he places stories about Jackie-and photos of Jackie-within the context of literature, film, and the idiosyncratic imagination. He meditates on the significance of her silence, her hairdos, her sunglasses, her wealth; he compares her to Liz Taylor and Maria Callas; he considers Jackie as a dandy, as a traveler, as a housewife; he hypothesizes on Jackie's relation to repetition, perversity, and sublimity. An exuberant paean to a great star, Jackie Under My Skin is also a metaphysical meditation on fame, on evanescence, and on the difficulty of defining desire. How do we gain-or lose-identities by contemplating Jackie? What collective yearnings does Jackie's image crystallize? Following her into America's dreamwork, far from pious 'family values,' Wayne Koestenbaum dares to see her as an embodiment of pleasure, a figure of Circean extravagance, and a unique and necessary emblem of that most exhilarating of pursuits: freedom without responsibility."
Edition: First editionBinding: Boards
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0374284466
Book Id: 17478
Price: $15.50
