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Tynan, Tracy

 
9780715651506: Wear and Tear
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0715651501 ISBN 13: 9780715651506
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

'A cracking read!' Libby Purves, Midweek, BBC Radio 4

'Vivid and entertaining throughout' Times

Tracy Peacock Tynan, daughter of the world-famous theatre critic Kenneth Tynan and the author Elaine Dundy, grew up in London and New York during the 1950s and '60s. Her parents threw lavish parties where style was essential and guests included the biggest Hollywood, theatre and literary legends among them Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Orson Welles, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams and Maggie Smith. As Tynan describes it, her parents were ''trying their best to be the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of the '50s.''

In Wear and Tear, Tynan reveals the glamour, secrets and dark side of her parents' highly stylised world of endless jet-setting and savage fights, the struggles she faced as she tried to take charge of her life, and the happiness she eventually found as a costume designer, writer, wife and mother. She tells her astonishing story through the prism of the clothes which have come to symbolise her turbulent life: her father's dandy attire, her mother's mink coat and Pucci dress, clothes-shopping on Oxford Street as a teenager and donning Ossie Clark as a young adult. Her love for fashion eventually inspired her to a career as a Hollywood designer, dressing Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Julie Andrews, Zooey Deschanel and other stars.

Frank, funny and deftly observed, Wear and Tear is an immensely engrossing, charming and eye-opening memoir of an extraordinary life.

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About the Author

Tracy Tynan is a costume designer and writer living in Los Angeles. Her credits include The Big Easy, Blind Date, Great Balls of Fire! and Tuesdays With Morrie. The only child of Kenneth Tynan and Elaine Dundy, Tracy Tynan was brought up in the company of the film and theatre society of the day in her parents' world of lavish parties, incredible outfits and volatile behaviour. Tynan triumphs in this compassionate memoir masterfully woven to tell the story of her fondest, most difficult and revealing moments.

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Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0715651501
ISBN 13 
9780715651506
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320