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Starred Review. "My mother enjoyed claiming direct descent from Genghis Khan," Gray explains as she opens this complex and rewarding family memoir. That claim gave her mother "both the aristocratic pedigree and the freedom to be a barbarian." Tatiana Yakovleva du Plessix Liberman was 19 and hungry in 1925 when she left the Soviet Union for France. Tatiana and Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky soon fell passionately in love, but the ever-practical woman married aristocratic Frenchman Bertrand du Plessix instead. They had one child, Francine, before du Plessix was killed in early WWII combat. Tatiana then became involved with Alexander Liberman, a British- and French-educated artistic Jewish-Russian émigré. Alex, Tatiana and Francine fled to New York in 1941 and started a new life—Tatiana designing hats for Bendel's before a career with Saks, Alex scaling the fashion journalism ladder at Condé Nast. New Yorker contributor Gray tells the story of this talented, self-absorbed couple from their roots to their graves. The final chapters—with the death of Demerol-addicted Tatiana and Alex's remarriage to an adoring nurse—are unbearably tragic, and the inside story of the Liberman ménage is more addictive than any Vanity Fair exclusive. Gray is such a fine writer, her family story reads like a novel of early 20th-century bohemianism gone corporate. Rich with history of early to mid-20th-century design and publishing, this memoir stands as an instructive model of how to write a difficult story honestly. Gray's parents were not nice people, but she loved them, and readers, by the end, understand why. Photos. Agents, Georges and Anne Borchardt. (May 5)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Du Plessix Gray, a writer of scintillating style and resonant substance, has written about the Marquis de Sade and Simone Weil, and now reveals the source of her fascination with enigmatic and powerful figures in this daring portrait of her famous and infamously difficult parents. Her mother, Tatiana, was an imposingly beautiful and willful Russian living in exile in France when she was wooed by the celebrated Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, then married Bertrand du Plessix instead. After he was killed by the Nazis, she fled occupied France for New York with her young daughter, Francine, and her soon-to-be second husband, the Russian emigre artist Alexander Liberman. There, Tatiana became a world-renowned hat designer, and Alexander became the "wizard of American fashion journalism" at Conde Nast. But for all their splendid success, they were dreadful parents. An enthralling storyteller and incisive interpreter of the human psyche, du Plessix Gray struggles with her anger and love, ultimately perceiving the suffering underlying her larger-than-life parents' often appalling behavior. And so glamorous, talented, driven, and ruthless were Tatiana and Alexander, so grand and cosmopolitan their lives, so dark their secrets, du Plessix Gray's penetrating and unforgettable memoir of a peerless family reads like a great epic novel. Donna Seaman
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