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Title: Riveting reading
Review: Princess bride, queen, mother, widow - in this fictionalized memoir of Jackie O's life, Ruth Francisco does for Jackie what Joyce Carol Oates did for Marilyn - that is, capture the complex, passionate, intelligent woman behind the various archetypes she inhabited so fully throughout the stages of her life. Francisco delves into the not-so-glorious aspects of the life of an extremely private public figure, whom everyone "owned" and who no one really knew. I believed this was a real memoir from page 1. Loved this book, as I did Ruth Francisco's previous novels - I think she is a major literary talent in the making. Looking forward to her next book.
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