The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476762953 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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When Joan became the first and only American woman to fill Vogue Paris’s coveted position of Editor in Chief, she had the means to recreate for her aging father, now a widower, the life he’d enjoyed during his high-flying years, a splendid illusion of glamorous excess that could not be sustained indefinitely.The Price of Illusion is a “relentlessly candid and often absorbing account of a complex life spent in and out of the fashion spotlight” (Kirkus Reviews). From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the cre
If you are drawn to glamour and pain, get ready to be mesmerized." (John Patrick Shanley, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Doubt)“A lush, charming memoir.” (People)"If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll adore Joan Juliet Buck’s The Price of Illusion, her deliciously written memoir of her golden life in Hollywood and at Paris Vogue, which became more and more about running as fast as she could until, in one of the best blow-by-blows of being fired you’ll ever read, she finally began to figure out what matter.” (Elle)“Buck offers sharp, candid observations&hell
Seduced by bright shiny objects and finding her way clear. Worldly and compelling. It seems strange to describe “The Price of Illusion” as a memoir about addiction because I’ve known Joan Buck for 35 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen her drunk or stoned. In her case, “addiction” is more special than drugs or alcohol or sex. But then, in her case, everything is special.When we met, I thought we were very much the same: magazine writers making our way up the pole. Joan didn’t talk much about her childhood and the start of her career, but if she had, I’d have quickly understood how little we had in common. H. Vogue and So Much More Patrick Cleary Joan Juliet Buck comes from Hollywood royalty, and moved on to fashion. While living a life many would envy, she writes about how much of it is simply an illusion, and an addictive one at that. With wit, biting insight and real depth, Buck flays open her own life and shows us the price it all takes to seem fabulous. Recommended.. Best depiction of the cutthroat fashion magazine business Prof. Bunny This may forever be the best depiction of the cutthroat fashion magazine business, even if Joan Juliet Buck's stint as editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue does not occupy that much of the book. Other accounts may exist, or follow, but the triumph of The Price of Illusion is that Buck is a superb writer. She excels in every aspect of great literary writing and, in the course of the story, as all the trappings of superficial success fray and disappoint, her writing becomes the whole reason for reading this book. The prose is elegant, witty, incisive, and poignant, sometimes all in one sen
While a contributing editor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, Traveler, and The New Yorker, she wrote two novels, The Only Place to Be and Daughter of the Swan. . She served as editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris from 1994 to 2001. Currently, she writes for W, H