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Peggy : a novel / Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison.

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"Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father goes down with the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom, and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and antisemitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money), while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Throughout, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385538282
  • ISBN: 0385538286
  • Physical Description: 366 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2024]
Subject: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 > Fiction.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Fiction.
Heiresses > Fiction.
Jewish women > Fiction.
Rich people > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 10 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries.

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Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield FIC Godfrey (Text) 38955500149191 Adult Fiction Available -

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