Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Language: English
Published by Harper, New York, 2009
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Hardcover 2009, 1st edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (480 pages) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
- Author
- Moorehead, Caroline
- Publisher
- Harper, New York
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0061684414
- ISBN 13
- 9780061684418
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography
“[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 Pin—“an 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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About the Author
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.
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