{"product_id":"dancing-to-the-precipice-the-life-of-lucie-de-la-tour-du-pin-eyewitness-to-an-era-9780061684425","title":"Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes \u003cem\u003eDancing to the Precipice, \u003c\/em\u003e a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--\"an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoorehead, Caroline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eCaroline Moorehead is the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eA Bold and Dangerous Family\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVillage of Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Train in Winter\u003c\/em\u003e, which, with \u003cem\u003eA House in the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e, form the Resistance Quartet. \u003cem\u003eHuman Cargo\u003c\/em\u003e, her book about the international refugee crisis, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer, Moorehead has also written for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in London and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317895729426,"sku":"9780061684425","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27c5d339-e5db-4fe7-be51-96c407718f76.jpg?v=1727542355","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dancing-to-the-precipice-the-life-of-lucie-de-la-tour-du-pin-eyewitness-to-an-era-9780061684425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}