Rebecca Godfrey’s final book, completed by Leslie Jamison, reimagines the wild, wealthy, bohemian life of the heiress and art collector
Peggy Guggenheim was born in 1898 to a New York family second only in wealth to the Rockefellers. It was one which, with some justification, she regarded as cursed, given that her father drowned on the Titanic; her older sister Benita died in childbirth after five miscarriages; her younger sister Hazel was widely believed to have thrown her two sons from the top of a 16-storey building; and her daughter Pegeen died by suicide.
Godfrey ends her main narrative in 1938, before Peggy’s flight from Hitler’s Europe and second marriage to Max Ernst. Both of these events are alluded to in an epilogue set 20 years later in Venice, where Peggy continues to flout convention by sunbathing naked in public and pursuing younger men, including the Beat poet Gregory Corso.
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