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Title: Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Author: Patricia Volk
Narrator: Patricia Volk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2013-08-01
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir
Publisher's Summary:
From the acclaimed author ofStuffedcomes an intimate memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating livesthe iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the authors own motherto explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.
Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her familys garment district restaurant. Elsa SchiaparelliSchiapthe haute couture designer whose creations shocked the world, blurred the line between fashion and art, and believed that everything, even a button, has the potential to delight.
Audreys daughter Patricia read Schiaps autobiography,Shocking Life, at a tender age, and was transformed by it. These two womenvolatile, opinionated, and brilliant each in her own wayoffered Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that allowed her to plot her own course.
Moving seamlessly between the Volks Manhattan and Florida milieuand Schiaps life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dalí, Duchamp, and Picasso),Shockedweaves Audreys traditional notions of domesticity with Schiaparellis often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled meditation on beauty and on being a daughter, sister, and mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life.
An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patricia Volk is a wonder, and this memoir is as charming and wise as her larger-than-life mother.Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer
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