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What remains : object lessons in love and loss
- Title
- What remains : object lessons in love and loss / Karen von Hahn.
- Author
- Von Hahn, Karen, 1961-
- Publication
- Toronto : Anansi, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-4280 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 283 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn't quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan--a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain-and-vodka-soaked narcissist whose search for glamour and fulfillment through the acquisition and collection of beautiful things ultimately proved hollow. A tale of growing up in 1970s and 1980s Toronto in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jewish family that valued panache over pragmatism and making a design statement over substance, von Hahn's recollections of her dramatic and domineering mother are exemplified by the objects she held most dear: from a strand of prized pearls, to a Venetian mirror worthy of the palace of Versailles, to the silver satin sofas that were the epitome of her signature style. She also describes the misunderstandings and sometimes hurt and pain that come with being raised by her stunning, larger-than-life mother who in many ways embo.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4280
- ISBN
- 9781487000394
- 1487000391
- OCLC
- 967787908
- Author
- Von Hahn, Karen, 1961- author.
- Title
- What remains : object lessons in love and loss / Karen von Hahn.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Anansi, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Other Form:
- Von Hahn, Karen, 1961-, author. What remains.: Toronto : Anansi Nonfiction, 2017. (CaOONL)20169070263
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4280