02155cam a2200361 i 4500 1506636622 TxAuBib 20240821120000.0 240513s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024011719 9780385538282 0385538286 TxAuBib rda Godfrey, Rebecca, author. Peggy : a novel / Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison. First edition. New York : Random House, [2024] 384 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. ... The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father goes down with the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom, and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and antisemitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money), while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Throughout, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune"-- Provided by publisher. 20240821. Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 Fiction. Art Collectors and collecting Fiction. Jewish women Fiction. Jewish families Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Jamison, Leslie, 1983-, author. TXCMR