The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel
Jackie said quite famously, "I want to live my life, not record it." Jackie remains elusive, her interior life hidden, her soul masked behind sunglasses and an enigmatic smile. For the first time, these fictional memoirs tell Jackie's story in Jackie's voice?with all her joy and wit, grief and bitterness, gentleness and fortitude.
Ruth Francisco boldly plunges into the subtext of Jackie's public life, psychology, and sexuality, beyond her dazzling mythic exterior, reimagining Jackie's feelings and thoughts between the lines of recorded history. In this riveting epic tale, we follow Jackie's journey from her privileged yet wrenching youth, through the exaltation and suffering of her marriage to John F. Kennedy, to the shattering despair of her losses, exile, and loneliness. As she learns to forgive her jealous rival, Maria Callas, and her abusive second husband, Aristotle Onassis, Jackie begins to find redemption, ultimately discovering peace through her children and her work.
Powerful, poignant, and inspiring, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is a sweeping novel, a mythic fable of the trials and tribulations of the female soul.
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-20-2008
- it was great!
i just loved this book and even though i kept in mind throughout the whole novel that it was strictly fiction i really felt like i was reading jackie's journals throughout the most difficult, dramatic, and emotional roller coaster like...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-16-2008
- well kept secret
I was truly engrossed in this well written and well researched piece. I am not a jackie-o-phile and I had bought this book to use as a gift. I had not heard of it and never saw it anywhere; but I was looking for something to read one...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-29-2007
- Rings with the Possibility of Truth
She always said, "I want to live my life, not record it." In this fictional memoir, however, we see what could have been, behind Jackie's famous, oversized sunglasses. From childhood to death and through many a bedroom, Francisco...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-26-2007
- Pretty mean
After you read this book, you may not like Jackie or anybody that she knew. Not a kind word for any character, except maybe Caroline.Even Jackie looks like a nasty hypocrite.I'd pass.
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-20-2008
- it was great!
i just loved this book and even though i kept in mind throughout the whole novel that it was strictly fiction i really felt like i was reading jackie's journals throughout the most difficult, dramatic, and emotional roller coaster like...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-26-2007
- Pretty mean
After you read this book, you may not like Jackie or anybody that she knew. Not a kind word for any character, except maybe Caroline.Even Jackie looks like a nasty hypocrite.I'd pass.
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