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Blow By Blow: The Story Of Isabella Blow (2010)

by Detmar Blow(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0062020870 (ISBN13: 9780062020871)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

It Books

review 1: I'm not sure Detmar Blow is the most reliable commentator on his wife's life, career, mania & suicide. Still, Isabella Blow's life was rather extraordinary and tragic - and the book is an interesting look at a woman who lived, breathed and died for fashion. It's a quick read - kind of like a Vanity Fair article - but in the end, left me feeling sad & empty (like a Vanity Fair article) for this tragic figure.
review 2: A more sensitive account of the ups and downs of being Isabella Blow than the other biography I read recently. Written by her husband, the background stories were less shocking (since I had just read most of them) and the personal details much more convincing. Towards the end, there is mention of a psychiatrist who later treated Alexander McQuee... moren . . . I'm sure the doctor does not advertise those connections on his resume. Isabella Blow was, in some ways, a genius, and thus also partly inexplicable and unknowable. This is why, I suppose, she continues to fascinate. less

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