It’s hard to imagine that a biography on someone as
remarkable as Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel could be boring, but that’s exactly what
Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life was as Lisa Chaney tediously documented events
and people with only a little bearing on Chanel. The biography could go on for pages without
mention of its subject. Furthermore,
Chaney constantly bragged about her new findings and pompously pointed out
flaws in previous accounts of Chanel’s life.
It was not unusual to read things like, “It has been customary to say
that Gabrielle began embroidering her clothing under the influence of her
Russian lover, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.
This is quite wrong.” It became
quite off-putting.
About the narrator:
Carole Boyd is British while Chanel was French, but the European accent
and French pronunciations were a nice touch to the audiobook version. It made some of the book seem more alive. However, Boyd frequently dropped to sotto
voice, which sent me racing for the volume control far too many times.
2/5
Review copy provided by AudioGO.
To purchase the audio version, go to the AudioGO website.
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