Bridesmaids ANNOTATION
The New York Times bestseller! The Bridesmaids is an intimate, intriguing look at movie star and princess Grace Kelly, as seen through the eyes of six of her closest friends, the bridesmaids she chose for her wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
The author, one of Grace Kelly's ``six intimate friends'' who served as her bridesmaids, ``writes vividly of all their lives and of the media event of 1956, the film star's wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco,'' reported PW of this ``exhaustively detailed and opinionated'' book. Photos. (Aug.)
Library Journal
Grace Kelly's marriage was a fairy tale worthy of Hollywood. Quine, a privileged young woman herself, shared in the glamour and excitement as one of Kelly's bridesmaids. Her book is not only a biography of the actress, but by focusing on the lives of Kelly's six close frineds, it also draws a portrait of a generation of women. Beginning in the optimism of the Fifties, these disparate lives mirror much of the change the United States has faced since World War II. At times superficial and at others more philosophical, Quine's work provides an interesting angle to what might otherwise have been a rather standard biography.-- Barbara E. Kemp, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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