The white dress / Nathalie Léger ; translated by Natasha Lehrer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Léger, Nathalie, author.

Contributor:

Lehrer, Natasha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Robe blanche. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Performance art.

Performance art--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

123 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First U. S. Edition.

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2020.

Language Note:

In English, translated from French.

Summary:

The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Léger's award-winning triptych of books about women who "through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery" (Elle). In Exposition, Léger wrote about the Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman of the nineteenth century; in Suite for Barbara Loden she took up the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden; here, Léger grapples with the tragic 2008 death of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered while hiking from Italy to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. A harrowing meditation on the risks women encounter, in life and in art, The White Dress also brings to a haunting conclusion Léger's personal interrogation--sustained across all three books--of her relationship with her mother and of the desire for justice in our lives.

ISBN:

9781948980050

1948980053

OCLC:

1155085796