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Perfume, music and passion combine in a portrait of the little known affair of the century. Coco Chanel invited Igor Stravinsky to summer at her villa, where they began an affair which touched both deeply but was complicated by their devotion to their work and Igor's commitment to his family.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Chris Greenhalgh
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Review
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780755300860
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