The girl in white gloves : a novel of Grace Kelly / Kerri Maher.
"Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her life. When an unexpected friendship develops between her and Prince Rainier of Monaco, she faces the tempting possibility of a new role--one that offers the power and stability she craves. But life isn't like the movies. Twenty years into her crumbling marriage, Grace finds herself frustrated and disillusioned. Conflicted by notions of family, career, and the very nature of womanhood--notions Grace herself shaped for a generation of women--the world's loneliest princess searches for purpose beyond the labels and headlines. A Hollywood darling, a fairy-tale princess, and a wife starved for autonomy, Grace Kelly is a woman divided. And though she is confined by public perception and societal conventions, one thing is certain--she will never bow to them."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451492074
- Physical Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
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Subject: | Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982 > Fiction. Motion picture actors and actresses > Fiction. Monaco > Fiction. |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 January #1
Hollywood-royalty-turned-actual-royalty Grace Kelly is the subject of Maher's second novel (after The Kennedy Debutante, 2018). The narrative traces Kelly's life from her days as a young actress in New York, hungry for Broadway success, to her memorable turns in Hitchcock films and her Academy Award for The Country Girl (as well as her many discreet love affairs along the way), to her fairy tale wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, a marriage that ultimately leaves her feeling trapped and deeply unhappy. Kelly is a difficult subject for a novelist, given her public perception as an enigmatic ice queen, and Maher paints a portrait of a lonely woman desperate for the warmth of a loving family of her own and the stability this would offer, whose fixation on this fantasy leads her to trade a successful, fulfilling career for a dissatisfying marriage. Kelly still occasionally feels frustratingly inscrutable to the reader, but Maher's portrayal of this Hollywood icon is largely convincing, and there is much to relish about this well-researched, riveting tale. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.