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Autobiography Of A Wardrobe (2008)

by Elizabeth Kendall(Favorite Author)

2.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375425004 (ISBN13: 9780375425004)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: This was not an easy book to read, but I was never tempted to set it aside and I read it all in one day actually. This story of a personality evolving from the wardrobe's point of view was a great perspective. From the time we are young and made to do and be a certain way...through all the painful changes that growing up brings and we are thinking and acting on our own and reaping the rewards or consequences. The book really brings home the message that life is constant changes for good or bad or just different. The quiet message of staying in shape to handle life as best we can is delivered only once in actual words, thank you. I think that makes it all the more powerful for not harping on it. I really wasn't sure what to expect of this book, but the title and idea attrac... moreted me. What I got was a travelogue, personal diary, and history of fashion with other bits and pieces thrown in as needed. I loved it and will certainly read it again.
review 2: Narrated by, and from the perspective of, the wardrobe (the clothing, not the piece of furniture), this book is the fictional biography of its owner, Body, aka B. Although the premise sounds intriguing, the book did not work for me. The wardrobe seemed to be some nebulous entity above and separate from the actual pieces of clothing worn by B. And despite the ever-changing oft-Bohemian international and New York City lifestyles, I was never drawn into the life of B., nor did I care about her. To me, this book was more of a commentary on the importance, and lack thereof, of clothing and fashion during different parts of B. s life. less

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