Caroline Moorehead

Dancing to the Precipice (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics.
Vogue



From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pinan astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman (Boston Globe) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061887529
• Artikelnr.: 37983232

Autorenporträt

Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of the Resistance Quartet, which includes A Bold and Dangerous Family, Village of Secrets, and A Train in Winter, as well as Human Cargo, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. An acclaimed biographer, she has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. She lives in London and Italy.