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Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy

October 1, 2015
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Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.

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