All We Know: Three Lives

by Lisa Cohen and Lisa Cohen

Book Overview

Esther 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. The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374176493
• ISBN13: 9780374176495
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"