Grace

by James Spada

Book Overview

"Oh Grace, we hardly knew you," wrote The Chicago Tribune about this book. "Spada presents us with a living, breathing Grace Kelly whose real life surpassed every male fantasy." "A compassionate,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385192991
• ISBN13: 9780385192996
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A ground-breaking book about Grace

James Spada was the first Grace Kelly biographer to reveal that she was anything but "the girl in the white gloves" that the Hollywood myth machine insisted she was. Every other Grace biographer since owes him a debt. Spada's interviews with Grace's sisters, a niece, and several former lovers paint a sympathetic picture of a yong woman torn between conflicting loyalties and conflicting ideas of propriety. She was in many ways a libertine, but always she felt guilty because of her strictly Catholic upbringing. After she finally got free of her restrictive parents, she married a man whose position and lifestyle restricted her even more. In many ways Grace Kelly seemed a one-dimensional figure before Spada wrote his book. You'll never think of her in that way again.