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BELLE GREENE - ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE KARTONIERT (TB)

THE TRANSFIXING TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO DEFIED ALL ODDS TO CHOOSE HER OWN DESTINY   "This
life of the astonishing Belle Greene  the director of the Morgan Library who took the decision
to "pass" as white in New York's Gilded Age  is a breathtaking and poignant work of social
history."- Rebecca Fraser  author of Charlotte Brontë   "Erudite  sharp  and worldly  she hid
an incredible secret... The story told with panache by Alexandra Lapierre of one of the first
women of the 20th century to have had the madness  and above all the courage  to choose her own
destiny."- ELLE   New York in the 1900s. A young girl  fascinated by rare books  defies the
odds and climbs all the ranks. She becomes the director of the fabulous library of the magnate
J. P. Morgan and the darling of the international aristocracy  under the false name of Belle da
Costa Greene. Belle Greene to close friends.   But the flamboyant collector who turns heads and
reigns over the world of bibliophiles hides a terrible secret for the violently racist America
of her time. Although she looks white  she is actually African American and  moreover  the
daughter of a famous black activist who sees her desire to hide her origins as a betrayal. It
is this drama of a being torn between history and a woman's choice to belong to the society
which oppresses her people that Alexandra Lapierre recounts.   The fruit of three years of
investigation  this novel retraces the victories and heartbreaks of a woman full of life  as
free as she is determined  whose astonishing daring echoes today's battles. 

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