It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me

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<p><b>*One of the <i>Telegraph</i>'s Greatest Books of 2025*</b></p><p><b>'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham</b></p><p><b>'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, <i>Telegraph</i></b></p><p><b>'Wildly entertaining' <i>Dazed<br></i></b><br><b>'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon'<i> Observer</i></b><br><b><i>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</i></b></p><p><b>How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans Bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?</b></p><p>In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780349017709

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 126 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group