Them: A Memoir of Parents

The biographer author of Simone Weil and Soviet Women presents a portrait of her famous parents, describing their respective roles as a gifted artist and a sophisticated fashion icon, their flight from World War II Paris, their rise within New York society, and their relationships with famous and powerful people. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian emigres who consorted with Dali and Dietrich and told American women how to look, where to travel, and what to read. As told by their daughter, the distinguished writer Francine du Plessix Gray, their saga combines romance, glamour, and pathos. Their adulation for success was as obsessive as their fierce, neurotic love for each other, and they treated everyone else-including Francine-with ruthless opportunism. Them is a work of Tolstoyan emotional power as well as a brilliant social history of its subjects' age.