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Courting Controversy: A Conversation with Novelist Gioia Diliberto About Coco at the Ritz
In Gioia Diliberto’s elegant new novel, “Coco at the Ritz,” we encounter the legendary Coco Chanel. Fashion designer, self-made woman, complicated feminist figure, trying amidst the turmoil of World War II to protect her assets: it isn’t hard to imagine the famously prickly Chanel insisting she wasn’t a feminist; yet, at a time when most women did not work outside of their homes, let alone head an international house of haute couture, the feminist shoe fits.
Set during World War II, mostly in Paris, Diliberto has written a novel that centers on an episode in Chanel’s life of which very little is known—at the end of World War II, she was questioned by the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) about her intimate relationship with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German spy, with whom she was involved throughout the war and for some time afterward.
With the keen eye of a seasoned journalist and the soul of a novelist, Diliberto vividly imagines the interrogation scene between Chanel and the FFI as well as events populating the years immediately preceding it when Chanel and von Dincklage resided in Paris’ storied Ritz Hotel.
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A Functional Woman
The Indeed Life thoroughgoing Jane Addams
By GIOIA DILIBERTO
Scribner
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Biographer Diliberto examines the Hemingway legend for the first time from the perspective of the only woman whom Hemingway never stopped loving, offering a rare glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and of the woman who provided the security and freedom he needed to pursue his genius. Hadley and Ernest were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the focal point of the expatriate community that boasted the likes of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. Diliberto explores their passionate, epistolary courtship, family life in Paris with baby Jack, Hadley's loss of the only copy of Hemingway's first novel, and, finally, the devastating ménage à trois on the French Riviera which severed their relationship. All his life Hemingway yearned for a woman who would love him as much.--From publisher description.