Product Description
It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me (Hardcover)
Author: Philippa Snow
Format: Hardcover
A Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Dazed
How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline ‘Tula’ Cossey?
In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity – from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era.
Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow’s first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
‘I love Philippa Snow’s writing, truly and deeply’ — Lena Dunham
‘A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity … a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence’ — Megan Nolan, Telegraph
‘Wildly entertaining’ — Dazed
‘Snow’s prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon’ — Observer
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