Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

By Rosamond Bernier

Book Overview

Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives , Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal L'OEIL , which she cofounded in 1955. The result is a multifaceted self-portrait of a life informed and surrounded by the arts. Through the stories of her encounters with some of the twentieth century's great artists and composers--including Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copeland, Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeld--we come to understand the sheer richness of Bernier's experiences, interactions, and memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wise--a richly rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374266611
• ISBN13: 9780374266615
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.2" x 6.4"