2005, The Penguin Press

Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix were gifted Russian emigres who fled occupied Paris in 1940 to become the first and grandest "power couple" of New York's fashion world. They hobnobbed with Dali, Deitrich, and Nabokov. They told American women how to look, where to travel, what to read. They loved eachother fiercely and neurotically, and treated everyone else with ruthless opportunism. As told by their daughter, Francine du Plessix Gray, Alexander and Tatiana's story is fascinating, often heartrending, filled with romance and pathos, and captures the chaos and glamour of postwar New York.

"Astonishing...[Gray] uses all her writerly gifts...to give the reader an intense and remarkable power portrait."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Exquisite...Gray has written that rare memoir never sunk by indulgence."
-The Philadelphia Enquirer

"Them is blessed with the memoir's equivalent of good bones: epic scope and historic scale...but the tale is in the telling, and Gray's acumen, honesty, and elegant prose...are equal to the task."
-The Boston Globe

"A spellbinding, warts-and-all double portrait...a dazzling account...With a masterful balance of 'ruthlessness and tenderness', research and reminiscence, grievance and gratitude, [Gray's] book is a sterling example of the personal memoir exalted to cultural history."
-Los Angeles Times

"A genre-bending book, part memoir, part biography, part elegy, and part lyrical magic...Within it's sweeping scope are cameos so unforgettable, language so transcendent, that the book achieves the rare feat of offering something for everyone."
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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