

Raised in a rawther social family, in London and Paris and New York, she married banker Reed Vreeland at the age of nineteen, and he was clearly the love of her life.

And it's full of italics! Vreeland's excitement and enthusiasm for whatever it is she's talking about are evident on the page. You zip through this book because you find yourself reading it as quickly as it was said. And, boy, can she talk! A mile a minute is a conservative estimate. Vreeland and let her talk, and then pretty much transcribed the conversation as it had happened.

Instead, it's rather obvious that the editors, George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill, just sat down with Mrs.
