The Chanel sisters
(2021, original release: 2020)
By:
Little, Judithe
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/LITTLE,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2021
©2020
©2020
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION
559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781432885724, 1432885723 :, 1432885723, 9781432885724
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Abandoned by their family, Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel grew up under the guidance of pious nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. When they came of age, the sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propelled them out of poverty and to the stylish cafés of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy-- and to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris, where a business takes hold and expands to the glamorous French resort towns-- just before World War I breaks out. -- adapted from back cover