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A Penguin Books trade paperback in fine condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of soiling or creasing throughout. Spine is uncreased and the pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A fine, apparently unread copy in excellent condition. Published by Penguin Books, New York, in 2012, this trade paperback presents Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney — Oxford-educated cultural historian and biographer. Drawing on newly discovered love letters and previously unavailable archival sources, the biography is widely regarded as the most thoroughly researched life of Chanel yet written. Chaney traces Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's full arc — from her impoverished childhood and her years in the provincial French orphanage where she learned to sew, through her transformation of twentieth-century women's fashion, her relationships with artists and musicians, and what Chaney calls the secret suffering beneath the polished surface. Illustrated with photographs.