The Price of Illusion - by Joan Juliet Buck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of <i>Vogue Paris </i>and "one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style" (<i>New York Times</i>) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris--"If you loved <i>The Devil Wears Prada</i>, you'll adore <i>The Price of Illusion</i>" (<i>Elle</i>).</b> <p/>In a book as rich and dramatic as the life she's led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film, fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the artifice. <p/> The only child of a volatile movie producer betrayed by his dreams, she became a magazine journalist at nineteen to reflect and record the high life she'd been brought up in, a choice that led her into a hall of mirrors where she was both magician and dupe. After a career writing for <i>Vogue</i> and <i>Vanity Fair</i>, she was named the first American woman to edit <i>Vogue</i> <i>Paris</i>. The vivid adventures of this thoughtful, incisive writer at the hub of dreams across two continents over fifty years are hilarious and heartbreaking. <p/> Including a spectacular cast of carefully observed legends, monsters, and stars (just look at the index!), this is the moving account of a remarkable woman's rocky passage through glamour and passion, filial duty and family madness, in search of her true self.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for Joan Juliet Buck: </b> <p/>"One of the most compelling personalities in the world of style...a shrewd and longtime chronicler of trends."-- "New York Times"<br><br>"<i>The Price of Illusion</i> is a spilled treasure of a book. Unexpected sudden diamonds cascade across every page. The language is dazzling, but even more overwhelming is the Proustian level of observation. Fashion is laid bare of its artifice. Celebrated giants like Peter O'Toole and John Huston show up in human form. And Miss Buck's career and family flameouts dovetail into a single, heartbreaking tragedy. 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"<br><br>"[A] lush, charming memoir."-- "People"<br><br>"A juicy read that leaves no stone unturned in its critical view of the fashion and publishing worlds..."-- "VF.com"<br><br>"A parade of stars and styles . . . . Think of anyone who had cachet in the world of movies, literature or fashion starting in 1970 or so, and chances are good that they pop up in this book. . . . Buck has been a fabulous Zelig in the world of memoirs."-- "The New York Times"<br><br>"Buck offers sharp, candid observations....the author is an appealing protagonist who never takes herself too seriously, nor those around her....By the end of this exquisitely written memoir, Buck emerges triumphant."-- "USA Today, 4 Stars"<br><br>"Fans of high fashion and celebrity culture will enjoy this insider account."<br> -- "Library Journal"<br><br>"If you loved <i>The Devil Wears Prada</i>, you'll adore Joan Juliet Buck's <i>The Price of Illusion</i>, her deliciously written memoir of her golden life in Hollywood and at Paris <i>Vogue</i>, 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"<br><br>"In this often hilarious yet ultimately profound memoir, Joan Juliet Buck explores life's most gorgeous surfaces and agonizing depths. She writes with brio even when she narrates times of difficulty, and achieves a remarkable mixture of modesty, exuberance, and pained confession. Buck's brilliant wit, her entirely original sense of style, her capacity to negotiate tragedy, and her gift for self-analysis make this book not only riveting, but also unforgettable."-- "Andrew Solomon, bestselling author of Far From the Tree"<br><br>"Lapidary. . . elegant. . . psychedelic. . . brilliant."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"<br><br>"Like a tin of caviar or a strand of heirloom pearls, Joan Juliet Buck's memoir...satisfies the appetite for luxury [and] poignant introspection."-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"<br><br>"Relentlessly candid and often absorbing account of a complex life spent in and out of the fashion spotlight."-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><br>A happy ending? Try this: As she recovers from her addiction to Conde Nast and fashion, Joan Juliet Buck is at last free to be the writer she always wanted to be."-- "HEADBUTLER.COM"<br><br>"A startling and memorable memoir, filled with stars and scars, matters of business and affairs of the heart, successes and failures, all seen with Buck's seemingly photographic memory in infinite detail. A must for any lover of fashion and culture, and for all those who cherish a life lived to its fullest. <i>The Price of Illusion</i> is a great record of a truly remarkable life."--Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife<br><br>"Anybody could make a riveting life story of the events and rolodex of people in this book, but reading it, I was most reminded of James Salter's autobiography <i>Burning the Days, </i>the inquiry by a great writer into his own remarkable life. It is a moving, Bildungsroman-like account of the inner workings of fame and culture, houses built of cards, aspiration and loss, and a brave search for love. At once an unputdownable romp through sixty years of a world that no one will ever know better than Joan Juliet Buck, and a great literary accomplishment."--Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks<br><br>"Brimming over with voluptuous details, this is delicious writing--intelligent, provocative, ironic, and so compulsively readable I simply could not put it down."--Patricia Bosworth, New York Times bestselling author of Diane Arbus<br><br>"Joan Juliet Buck had lived a more brilliant, stranger, more glamorous, sadder, happier, richer, poorer life by the age of twenty-five than most of us do in three times that long and then she went right on living it and then she wrote it down. I'm a sucker for good, smart writing and this book is nothing but good, smart writing and great stories. Terrific stuff.<b>"</b>--Salman Rushdie, bestselling author of Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights<br><br>"Ms. Buck has been everywhere, done everything -- the most delicious...pages I've read in months....sure to ravish the best-seller lists."--Liz Smith, NewYorkSocialDiary.com<br><br>"One knows from the opening paragraph that one is in the presence of a truly original, and compelling, voice; and that the scope of the book to come will be both ravishingly large and, at the same time, rife with perfect, telling details."--Michael Cunningham, bestselling author of A Wild Swan and The Hours<br>
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