DNF- When I first saw this book I grabbed it without reading the synopsis which is a really bad habit of mine. After I read the synopsis I was torn since while I love fiction and I love biographies, I don’t like fictional biographies. I kept putting it off until I found myself with nothing else to read and I started.
While I’m sure Peggy Guggenheim was a fascinating person, I had a really hard time with this book. It’s written as though it’s Peggy’s thoughts, complete with chunks of dialogue with no punctuation to signify the dialogue, except for a small part here or there. Because it’s classified as a novel I kept Googling to confirm the parts of her life I read about and found very little confirmation. After I was about 30% in and bored out of my mind I decided this just wasn’t the book for me.
If you enjoy fictionalized biographies or if you are fascinated by the Guggenheims and Peggy in particular, you’ll likely really enjoy this. Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for an advanced copy of this. Peggy hit the shelves on August 13th.