All We Know

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>All We Know </em>is one of <em>Publishers Weekly'</em>s Top 10 Best Books of 2012</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A revelatory biography of three glamorous complex modern women</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write-a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The quintessential fan Mercedes de Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy is the thousands of objects she collected to preserve the memory of those performers and to document her own feelings.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An icon of haute couture and an editor of British </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vogue</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Madge Garland held influential views on fashion that drew on her feminism her ideas about modernity and her love of women. Existing both vividly and invisibly at the center of culture she-like Murphy and de Acosta-is now almost completely forgotten.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All We Know</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices complicated failures and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style celebrity sexuality and the genre of biography itself </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All We Know </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives.</span></p><p><br></p>