How not to be disgusting
Anne Hollander, 6 December 1990
Coco Chanel: A Biography
by Axel Madsen.
Bloomsbury, 388 pp., £20, October 1990,0 7475 0762 7 Show More
by Axel Madsen.
Bloomsbury, 388 pp., £20, October 1990,
“... with well-mannered elegance. Axel Madsen has also written biographies of Yves St Laurent, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and a book about the love-affair between Joseph Kennedy and Gloria Swanson. He seems always to write about various kinds of star, presumably so as to reveal their secrets to their adoring fans in the usual sensational ... ”