Greek Fire

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR NICHOLAS GAGE
'If Eleni were fiction, it would bear the mark of genius A devoted, brilliant achievement' New York Review of Books
A tour de force, self-evidently powerful and true' Guardian
A book of burning intensity' Financial Times
A classic war memoir, as powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank' Sunday Times
A Place for Us: Eleni's Children in America
'Now that the family bond in this country is counting for less and less, it is exhilarating to be confronted with a story in which it counts for so much beautifully structured and satisfying' Ronald Hayman, Sunday Times
'A story told with candour, some humour and, in the end, disarming compassion' Washington Post
The true story of the affair that fascinated the world, and an operatic spectacle of desire and loss.
MARIA CALLAS, defiantly Greek yet Manhattan-born, was acclaimed as the Voice of the Century. Almost as famously, she transformed not just opera but herself - virtually overnight - from... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR NICHOLAS GAGE
'If Eleni were fiction, it would bear the mark of genius A devoted, brilliant achievement' New York Review of Books
A tour de force, self-evidently powerful and true' Guardian
A book of burning intensity' Financial Times
A classic war memoir, as powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank' Sunday Times
A Place for Us: Eleni's Children in America
'Now that the family bond in this country is counting for less and less, it is exhilarating to be confronted with a story in which it counts for so much beautifully structured and satisfying' Ronald Hayman, Sunday Times
'A story told with candour, some humour and, in the end, disarming compassion' Washington Post
The true story of the affair that fascinated the world, and an operatic spectacle of desire and loss.
MARIA CALLAS, defiantly Greek yet Manhattan-born, was acclaimed as the Voice of the Century. Almost as famously, she transformed not just opera but herself - virtually overnight - from dumpy, awkward ingénue to iconic sylph.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS, former Anatolian refugee, amassed one of the worlds largest fortunes and revolutionized international shipping; his life defined the jet set.
Together, they shared a love that was passionate, volatile and iU-fated — yet indelible. This is the intimate story of that relationship. 'It was as if a fire were consuming them both,' remarked Maria's forsaken husband.
At the heart of Nicholas Gage's immaculately researched, captivating and revelatory account is a day-by-day recreation of the infamous 1959 cruise aboard Onassis's yacht during which the union was cemented, flashing back to their extraordinary pasts. We then come to understand the pattern of their life together — and how the singer was nearly destroyed when the tycoon married Jacqueline Kennedy.
But within days of the wedding Onassis was back at Maria's door, and their relationship would continue on a new and deeper level, through tragedies and trials, until the end of their lives. In the end, he carried to his deathbed only a red cashmere blanket that she had given him.
In the ensuing decades many books have been written about the incandescent diva and the Promethean tycoon, but none has ever focused on the tempestuous relationship that was for both the most meaningful of their lives.
Nicholas Gage has created a vivid dual biography, an illuminating mosaic about the lives of two of the most fascinating people of the twentieth century. Vissza