Mary Gabriel

Madonna

A Rebel Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this riveting biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 1236g
• ISBN-13: 9780316456470
• ISBN-10: 0316456470
• Artikelnr.: 63238099

Autorenporträt

Mary Gabriel is the author of Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction and the 2019 Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's Mary Lynn Kotz Award. Gabriel's previous book, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of  Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. She worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades and lives in Ireland.

Rezensionen

Mary Gabriel has dared to write a biography of a woman with whom the entire world is on a first-name basis. Here, she reveals Madonna as a rock-and-roll suffragette, managing the stress test of her personal life and using the power of music to bring about social change. Exquisitely detailed in her storytelling, Gabriel convinces us that we all still vogue in the House of Madonna Brad Gooch, author of CITY POET: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK O'HARA