{"product_id":"wear-and-tear-the-threads-of-my-life","title":"Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWear and Tear: The Threads of My Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTracy Tynan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781501123689\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA candid, entertaining memoir told through clothes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950's and 60s, privy to her parents' glamorous parties and famous friends--Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. Tracy was named after Katherine Hepburn's character, Tracy Lord, in the classic film, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Story\u003c\/i\u003e. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracy's father, Kenneth Tynan, was a powerful theater critic and writer for the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Her mother was Elaine Dundy, a successful novelist and biographer, whose works have recently been revived by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Both of Tracy's parents, particularly her father, were known as much for what they wore as what they wrote. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Tynans' social circles, style was essential, and Tracy had firm ideas about her own clothing for as long as she can remember. Shopping was an art passed down through the family; though shopping trips with her mother were so traumatic that Tracy started shopping on her own when she was fourteen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Tracy started writing about her life she found that clothing was the focus of many of her stories. She recalls her father's dandy attire and her mother's Pucci dresses, as well as her parents' rancorous marriage and divorce, her father's prodigious talents and celebrity lifestyle, and her mother's lifelong struggle with addiction. She tackles issues big and small using clothes as an entrée--relationships, marriage, children, stepchildren, blended families, her parent's decline and deaths, and her work as a costume designer are all recounted with humor, with insight, and with the special joy that can only come from finding the perfect outfit.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life | Tracy Tynan | Hardcover | 9781501123689 | Used: Like New | Biography 1634448","offer_id":48697996935320,"sku":"1634448","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81m-6nKmYmL.jpg?v=1773768586","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/wear-and-tear-the-threads-of-my-life","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}