Caroline Blackwood: 6 books

Book cover of La duchessa
by Caroline Blackwood
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 21, 2015

Wallis Simpson, la duchessa di Windsor, è stata una delle donne più celebri del Novecento, l'unica ad aver fatto abdicare un re d'Inghilterra per amore. Icona di eleganza e fascino, si circondò per tutta la vita di amici potenti che ne ammiravano lo stile e il buon gusto. Eppure i suoi ultimi anni...
Book cover of The Last of the Duchess

The Last of the Duchess

The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

by Caroline Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood's words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine.
Book cover of Great Granny Webster
by Caroline Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic...
Book cover of Mrs. Webster
by Caroline Blackwood
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Donna di inusuale bellezza, figlia maggiore del marchese di Dufferin e Ava e di una erede della fortuna dei Guinness, musa ispiratrice e moglie di Lucian Freud, poi moglie del pianista e compositore Israel Citkowitz e infine del poeta Robert Lowell – che non esitò a definirla “una sirena che...
Book cover of La figliastra
by Caroline Blackwood
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Renata è un’adolescente grassa, stropicciata, disordinata e molto infelice. E ha delle ottime ragioni per esserlo: il padre, un avvocato di successo nella New York degli anni d’oro, è scappato con una giovane ragazza francese, lasciandola in balia della matrigna in uno splendido attico di Park...
Book cover of Corrigan
by Andrew Solomon, Caroline Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband’s death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave to look forward to. Her raucous housekeeper’s conversation, and cooking, are best forgotten. Nadine, her daughter, is...
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