{"product_id":"9780349017709","title":"It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me : 'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity' Megan Nolan, Telegraph","description":"Author(s): Snow, Philippa, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/07\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Virago Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Literary essays,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 21\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9780349017709\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e*One of the Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025*'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph'Wildly entertaining' Dazed'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans Bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snow, Philippa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56763124056450,"sku":"9780349017709","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780349017709.jpg?v=1783856504","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9780349017709","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}