'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read fizzing with intelligence'
Megan Nolan Telegraph 'Wildly entertaining' Dazed 'Snow's prose is beautiful white-hot
and breathless like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer
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does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What
connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like
trans bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey? In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of
famous women award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and
connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling
demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the
fascinating entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous
celebrities dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish flamboyant prose
Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the
complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
