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  Blahnik by Boman
  

  by Manolo Blahnik

  ISBN 0500512604 (0-500-51260-4)
  Hardcover, Thames & Hudson, Limited

  
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  Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation
  

  by Manolo Blahnik

  ISBN 0811851168 (0-8118-5116-8)
  Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc

  
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  Madame Bovary
  

  by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall, Michèle Roberts, Manolo Blahnik

  ISBN 0713999489 (0-7139-9948-9)
  Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited

  
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  Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" scandalised French bourgeois society of the time with its shocking depiction of an adulteress, Emma Bovary, and her lascivious liaisons. The 19th-century press denounced both the book and its author as corrupting influences. History has exonerated Flaubert and exposed the hypocrisy of a society that would deny the existence of such women.

  Emma Bovary, a young woman, newly married to a provincial doctor, is dazzled when she attends her first ball, attended by high aristocracy. With the culmination of her romantic ideals realised, her head is so filled with fanciful notions that she never re-enters reality, until the damning end:

  Before her wedding day, she had thought she was in love; but since she lacked the happiness that should have come from that love, she must have been mistaken, she fancied. And Emma sought to find out exactly what was meant in real life by the words felicity, passion and rapture, which had seemed so fine on the pages of the books.

  Frustrated and bored by her marriage, Emma embarks on a brief, rather touching affair with one young man but soon, vulnerable and exposed, she is fitting carrion for Monsieor Rodolphe, a serial womaniser. Soon, Emma has not only ruined her own reputation but destroyed that of her husband in her ruthless bid for wealth and recognition. The cast of characters, from passers-by to the shopkeepers who take her money, act like the chorus in a Greek tragedy. Seen through their eyes and their reactions to her, Emma's downfall is recounted but also society's intolerance.

  On the surface, Flaubert provides a melodramatic morality tale. Slyly, underneath it all, he is laughing. Through his voyeuristic tale, with each salacious detail recounted, he is wilfully subversive as he points the finger not only at the guilty but at those who would dare to judge. --Nicola Perry [via]

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  Shot in Sicily: 20 Years of Photographs 1987 - 2007
  

  by Amanda Harlech, Manolo Blahnik , Michael Roberts

  ISBN 3865214487 (3-86521-448-7)
  Hardcover, Steidl / Edition7L

  
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  Michael Roberts Shot in Sicily "Eine hinreißende Kollektion aufwändiger und fesselnder Bilder" (Vanity Fair): Shot in Sicily. Edler Prachtband mit Großfotografien. 1987 besuchte Fotograf Michael Roberts, von der New York Times als "außergewöhnliches Mitglied der Modewelt" bestaunt, zum ersten Mal die süditalienische Insel. Sogleich war er begeistert und kehrte seither immer wieder zu Mode-Shootings und als Urlauber nach Sizilien zurück. Die dabei entstandenen Fotos von Szenen, Landschaften, männlichen Akten und Leuten auf der Straße sind Grundlage dieses herrlichen Bildbandes: Eine Jungfrau Maria, getragen von Damen in Pelzmänteln. Männer mit geleckten Haaren, sonnenbebrillt und in schwarzen Anzügen vor einer Kathedrale. Alte Frauen mit verwitterten Gesichtern im Trauerflor. Ein nackter Jüngling mit Lorbeer bekränzten Locken. Ca. 130 ganzseitige Fotos, dazu 20 Zeichnungen. 186 Seiten. Atlasgroßformat 27 x 32 cm. Fadenheftung. Leinen. Steidl. [via]

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