Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few memoirs arrive with the weight of a dynasty behind them, but Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography carries precisely that — a glittering, unflinching account of two women born into extraordinary privilege and swept along by the tides of early twentieth-century high society. Gloria Vanderbilt, one of America's greatest heiresses, and her twin sister Thelma, Lady Furness — intimate companion to the Prince of Wales — chronicle their intertwined lives with remarkable candour, moving from opulent drawing rooms in New York to the courts of European aristocracy, navigating wealth, scandal, romance, and loss in equal measure. Written in alternating voices, the dual-narrative structure itself is a literary statement, presenting two perspectives on a shared world that was, in truth, experienced very differently by each woman. The authors illuminate the paradox at the heart of gilded lives — that immense privilege offers no immunity from grief, betrayal, or loneliness — and their combined testimony stands as a vivid social document of an era defined by excess and upheaval. What emerges is a portrait not merely of two remarkable individuals, but of a vanished world of transatlantic glamour that continues to captivate the imagination.
Author: Gloria Vanderbilt And Thelma Lady Furness
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few memoirs arrive with the weight of a dynasty behind them, but Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography carries precisely that — a glittering, unflinching account of two women born into extraordinary privilege and swept along by the tides of early twentieth-century high society. Gloria Vanderbilt, one of America's greatest heiresses, and her twin sister Thelma, Lady Furness — intimate companion to the Prince of Wales — chronicle their intertwined lives with remarkable candour, moving from opulent drawing rooms in New York to the courts of European aristocracy, navigating wealth, scandal, romance, and loss in equal measure. Written in alternating voices, the dual-narrative structure itself is a literary statement, presenting two perspectives on a shared world that was, in truth, experienced very differently by each woman. The authors illuminate the paradox at the heart of gilded lives — that immense privilege offers no immunity from grief, betrayal, or loneliness — and their combined testimony stands as a vivid social document of an era defined by excess and upheaval. What emerges is a portrait not merely of two remarkable individuals, but of a vanished world of transatlantic glamour that continues to captivate the imagination.