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Picture Palace
Picture Palace
Author: Paul Theroux
World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant retrospective, the resurrected images unleash a flo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345280428
ISBN-10: 0345280423
Publication Date: 4/12/1979
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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As a celebrated photographer sorts through her photo archive in preparation of retrospective in her honor, we share in her mental memoir of her history and experiences: of the rich & famous with their public faces & dark secrets; of artistry & passion in conflict with ambition & lust; and finally the scandalous desire that seems to have driven her life. Theroux satirizes our obsession with celebrity with both wit & style.
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A Theroux novel, not one of his travel books.


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