Jackie

Resumen del libro

Jackie is a novel about a woman who was deeply private, and who forged an historic legacy out of grief and courage, and who shaped history, even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, the creation of a family, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of violence. When Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at Vogue. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy. Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: Three and a half seconds that's all it was a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved. This vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.