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The price of illusion : a memoir / Joan Juliet Buck.

by Buck, Joan Juliet.

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Atria Books, 2017.

746.92092 B922p

Buck, Joan Juliet.

Vogue (London, England)

Women periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.

Women periodical editors -- France -- Biography.

Fashion editors -- Biography.

Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

Americans -- France -- Biography.

Celebrities -- Biography.

Rich people -- Biography.

9781476762944 (hc.)

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

404 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some color) ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

"From Joan Juliet Buck, editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue from 1994 to 2001, a dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: an account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of make-believe as the daughter of larger-than-life film producer Jules Buck (1917–2001), her childhood was a whirlwind of famous faces, ever-changing home addresses, and a fascination with the shiny surfaces of things. When Joan became the first and only American woman ever to fill Paris Vogue'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 story of a life lived in the best places at the most interesting times: London and New York in the swinging 1960s, Rome and Milan in the dangerous 1970s, Paris in the heady 1980s and 1990s. When her fantasy life at Vogue came to an end, she had to find out who she was after all those years of make-believe. She takes the reader through the wild parties and the fashion, the celebrities and creative geniuses as well as love, loss, and the loneliness of getting everything you thought you wanted and finding it's not what you'd imagined. While Joan's story is unique, her journey toward self-discovery is refreshing and universal. American novelist, critic, essayist and editor Joan Juliet Buck was a contributing editor to American Vogue from 1980 and also Vanity Fair. She published profiles and essays in The New Yorker, Cond©♭ Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels The Only Place To Be (1982) and Daughter Of The Swan (1987)"--Provided by publisher.

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