5.0 out of 5 stars
A Glittering, Passionate and Candid Memoir of the Madcap '70's & 80's, March 15, 2013
This review is from: Picasso's Ghost (A Love Story) (Paperback)
I have just read a terrifically entertaining book by Carole Mallory
entitled "Picasso's Ghost." It begins with her love-at-first-sight
encounter with CLAUDE PICASSO, son of FRANCOISE GILOT and PABLO PICASSO.
The book, however is not merely about her passionate relationship with
Claude: it also plunges us into friendships with profound men as
disparate as Henry Miller and Jonas Salk; through life changing love
affairs with Norman Mailer and Rod Stewart; with a cast of characters
that includes Jackie O, Princess Grace, Warren Beatty and, well, nearly
everybody who shined in that glittering, mad moment in history.Ms. Mallory captures in broad strokes the zeitgeist of the late Seventies and Eighties, but doesn't shy away from facing her own courageous battles, without self pity, enduring the snubs of Francoise Gilot, fiercely possessive of her son Claude, and her hard fought victory over alcoholism.
I urge anyone who is seeking marvelous, page-turning read to experience this sweeping and candid memoir.
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