Jackie: A Novel

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Synopsis
In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. &“A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul.&”—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess of Las VegasThe world has divided my life into three:Life with JackLife with OnassisLife as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.My life is all of these things, and it is none of these things. They continue to miss what&’s right in front of them. I love books. I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History. Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder.Even the beauty that breaks your heart.Jackie is the story of a woman—deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect—who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence.When Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at Vogue. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: &“Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.&” Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: &“Three and a half seconds—that&’s all it was—a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved.&”This vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.
Copyright:
2024

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
496 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780812997224
Related ISBNs:
9780812997217
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Dawn Clifton Tripp
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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