Gloria Vanderbilt (1924–2019)
Auteur de The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
A propos de l'auteur
Heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt was born in New York City, New York in February 1924. She studied art at the Art Students League of New York and successfully worked in oil, watercolor, and pastel. Vanderbilt designed for linens, china, glassware, and flatware, and in the 1970s she began afficher plus licensing the use of her name in fashion lines of scarves, eyeglasses, perfume, and clothing. In 1979 her designer jeans debuted, and she later began her own company in New York. Vanderbilt has written books including "A Mother's Story" and several novels. Gloria Vanderbilt was married 4 times and had 4 sons. Her husband's included Pat DiCicco, Leopold Stokowski, Sidney Lumet and Wyatt Cooper. She lost 1 son, Carter Cooper, to suicide in 1988 at the age of 23. She claimed in an interview in 2012 that she thought about that tragedy every day. One of her memoirs told of her romances with Hollywood figures such as Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly and Howard Hughes (she was a teenager at the time), as well as various married men. In 2009 at age 85 she published an explicit erotic novel, "Obsession." Gloria Vanderbilt passed away on 06/17/19 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Gloria Vanderbilt
Oeuvres associées
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper [2016 film] — Herself — 4 exemplaires
Gloria Vanderbilt: An Heir to Style [1997 TV episode] — Herself — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1924-02-20
- Date de décès
- 2019-06-17
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Études
- Greenvale School, Long Island, New York, USA
Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA - Relations
- Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan (mother)
Cooper, Anderson (son)
Furness, Thelma (aunt)
Stokowski, Leopold (2nd spouse)
Lumet, Sidney (3rd spouse)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (cousin) (tout afficher 7)
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt (aunt)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
2005-2010 (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,097
- Popularité
- #23,416
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 54
- ISBN
- 67
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
Instead, what I got was a whole lot about Gloria, and very little about Anderson. At first I was interested in Gloria’s story, but her constant whining, blaming her parents for absolutely everything that went wrong in her life, and the false modesty really got to me. Seriously, how many times can I take a gorgeous woman (with pictures sprinkled throughout the book to prove it) calling herself a “fat ugly duckling” before I toss the book across the room? (The answer is - too many.)
Ultimately, I don’t think the epistolary format suited this book. The conversations seemed stilted, and Anderson often had to chime in to fill in some of the gaps in his mother’s story. Also, she was very verbose while he only got a line in here and there. And it seemed to me as though she ignored him and his comments. He’d sometimes get vulnerable and open up about something specific (often having to do with the loss of his father), and Gloria would gloss over it and go back to her poor-me tales.
Gloria herself came across as petulant, selfish, and completely unable to take responsibility for her actions even at the age of 91. Everything that went wrong in her life was always someone else’s fault: her father’s for dying, her mother’s for not loving her, her aunt’s for letting her go chaperone-free to Europe at 17, etc, etc. Ugh. So disappointing.… (plus d'informations)