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JACKIE

Dawn Clifton Tripp

A Novel

From acclaimed author Dawn Tripp comes this captivating novel about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. We all think we know the story of Jackie - the wife, the mother, the widow, the fashion icon. But here Dawn Tripp brings to life the woman - the person - behind the sunglasses.

The world has divided my life into three acts. Life with Jack Kennedy Life with the Greek Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to JACKIE is the story of a woman who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it - a deeply private person with a nuanced, formidable intellect. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable 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, and she thinks Kennedy is not her kind of adventure: "Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy." Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor and 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 spellbinding novel is a window into the world of a woman who led many different lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Onassis, Jackie O. It's at once a deeply human story and a captivating work of imagination that comes right up against what she was thinking, feeling, what she was afraid of, fought for and believed in. Dawn Tripp's novel Georgia was a national bestseller, finalist for the New England Book Award, and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is also the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.

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Book Published 2024-06-18 by Random House

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Take the incisive brilliance of Curtis Sittenfeld at portraying America's famous first ladies and add to it exquisite prose in the vein of Maggie O'Farrell and you have the novel Jackie, by Dawn Tripp. It's a truly astonishing achievement: to breathe new life into a woman everyone thinks they already know and to show us that we know nothing - that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had so much more wit, intellect and imagination than anyone in her social, political and familial circles. I fell in love with both Jackie and this novel; it's going straight onto my shelf of favourite books. And I'll be recommending it to everyone I know.

Society Bride. Mother. Fashion Plate. First Lady. Saint. Curse. Jackie Kennedy Onassis has been assigned more labels than possibly any other woman in American history, occupying an incomparable status in the collective imagination and historical record. But in her latest work, Dawn Tripp strips all the fable and labels away, plunging readers deep into the imagined inner world of this larger-than-life figure, who not only lived on the frontlines of history but had an active hand in shaping its course. I relished each page of this gorgeous, poetic, and piercing journey into the depths of an iconic woman's heart, mind, and soul.

In her lyrical fever dream of a novel, Tripp offers a glimpse into the heart and soul of a thoughtful, brilliant woman who reluctantly stepped into the spotlight and was dogged by tragedy before ultimately coming into her own. From its gripping opening scene to the final page, I found myself entranced by Tripp's prose and barely holding back tears.... Electrifying.

With a fitting sense of elegance and poignancy, Tripp's expert and insightful fictionalization of Jackie's life manages an authenticity equal to any biography, making it a requisite addition to the Jackie canon.

An intimate portrait of Jackie Kennedy during her courtship and marriage to JFK. . . . Tripp brings Jackie and Jack's romance to life through carefully crafted scenes, and offers a humanizing portrayal of Jackie's complex love for her husband. Camelot devotees, take note.

Readers will devour this richly-detailed novel about the heart and soul of the most famous woman of the twentieth century.

"Ethereal . . . Tripp, who appends an extensive bibliography, has clearly done her research and integrates it seamlessly into the novel. . . . An elegiac and meticulously crafted ode to a still somewhat mysterious figure.