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Jackie

A Novel

by Dawn Tripp
Linda Jones
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In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.

“A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul.”—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess of Las Vegas
The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
My life is all of these things, and it is none of these things. They continue to miss what’s right in front of them. I love books. I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History. Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder.
Even the beauty that breaks your heart.
Jackie is the story of a woman—deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect—who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. 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. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his 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 vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.

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    June 18, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593908457
      • File size: 416816 KB
      • Duration: 14:28:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 29, 2024
      Tripp (Georgia) offers an intimate portrait of Jackie Kennedy during her courtship and marriage to JFK. The story starts in 1951 when Jackie has just graduated from Vassar and hopes to break into magazine publishing. Friends and family members try to set her up with Jack Kennedy, but initially she’s uninterested in the boyish congressman, perceiving him as the type who “loves a game and will leave it once he’s won.” As the two keep running into each other socially, she starts to fall for him, and eventually breaks off her engagement to stockbroker Johnny Husted. She and Jack begin dating as he hits the campaign trail in his bid for the Senate and get married in 1953. Jack’s infidelities, the death of their third child, and the stress of the Cold War cause fractures in their relationship, which are only beginning to heal in the months before their fateful trip to Dallas in 1963. 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. Agent: Kimberly Witherspoon, InkWell Management.

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