{"product_id":"9781466820104","title":"All We Know: Three Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eEsther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write—a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe quintessential fan, Mercedes de Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy lies in the thousands of objects she collected to preserve the memory of those performers and to honor the feelings they inspired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn icon of haute couture and a fashion editor of British \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, Madge Garland held bracing views on dress that drew on her feminism, her ideas about modernity, and her love of women. Existing both vividly and invisibly at the center of cultural life, she—like Murphy and de Acosta—is now almost completely forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, \u003ci\u003eAll We Know\u003c\/i\u003e explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll We Know \u003c\/i\u003eis one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Best Books of 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124872986864,"sku":"9781466820104","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466820104_p0.jpg?v=1769890965","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466820104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}