Tracy Tynan

Wear and Tear (eBook, ePUB)

The Threads of My Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tracy Tynan uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit, candor, and yesstyle (Lena Dunham).

Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950's and 60s, privy to her parents' glamorous parties and famous friendsLaurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age.

Tracy's father, Kenneth Tynan, was a powerful theater critic and writer for the Evening Standard, The Observer, and The New Yorker. Her mother was Elaine Dundy, a successful novelist and biographer, whose works have recently been revived by The New York Review of Books. Both of Tracy's parents, particularly her father, were known as much for what they wore as what they wrote.

In her moving, candid, and often hilarious memoir (Wall Street Journal), Tracy recalls her father's dandy attire and her mother's Pucci dresses, as well as her parents' rancorous marriage and divorce, her father's prodigious talents and celebrity lifestyle, and her mother's lifelong struggle with addiction. She tackles issues big and smallrelationships, marriage, children, stepchildren, blended families, her parent's decline and deaths, and her work as a costume designerwith humor, insight, and with the special joy that can only come from finding the perfect outfit. A powerful concoction of famous names, famous fashions, and famous psychiatric disorders...Wear and Tear is just the thing for a weekend in the Hamptons (New York Post).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501123702
• Artikelnr.: 44832693

Autorenporträt

Tracy Tynan is a costume designer and writer living in Los Angeles. Her credits include the movies The Big Easy, Blind Date, Great Balls of Fire, and Tuesdays with Morrie. Wear and Tear is her first book.