Why Doretta loves this book
I have been a fan of Rebecca Godfrey's book since her debut novel THE TORN SKIRT came out in 2001. She was a friend and a writing mentor and to have her final book after her death--I wish she could have been here to experience all the excitement of the novel being out in the world, and to know just how much readers are enjoying it.
1 author picked Peggy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone
“Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times.”—Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
“Magnificent . . . Readers will be won over by Godfrey’s incandescent portrait of a singular woman.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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…
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