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- Condition
- Artist
- Seymour, Miranda
- Brand
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- Type
- Hardback
- EAN
- 9781400061686
- ISBN
- 1400061687
- Publication Name
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- Release Title
- Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
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- Book Title
- Bugatti Queen : in Search of a French Racing Legend
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Cultural Heritage
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400061687
ISBN-13
9781400061686
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30756615
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bugatti Queen : in Search of a French Racing Legend
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Women, Cultural Heritage
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-042783
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"There is an element of Seabiscuit in the story of Helle Nice, the fearless French woman who raced the best drivers of the 1930s and won over her countrymen with her breathtaking skill and charm. And of course Nice's story, brilliantly told by Miranda Seymour, is highly relevant today, when women such as Indianapolis 500 driver Sarah Fisher are trying to break through in what has always been a man's sport." -Sam Posey, Grand Prix driver and author of Playing with Trains Advance Praise from the UK "Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack, Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver Hellé Nice will have you riveted to your seat. . . A dazzling portrait." --Pamela Norris, Literary Review "Spine-tingling . . . Seymour excels in conveying the wider social-historical context . . . and also the visceral excitement of racing in a Bugatti" --Christopher Silvester, Sunday Times "[The Bugatti Queen] is superb on the spectacle and allure of the track, and on what the sport is all about - death and, on the way, sex and speed." --Tom Payne, Daily Telegraph "Seymour writes with an elegance and verve her subject would have appreciated . . . [An] inspiring rediscovery." --Alan Judd, Spectator "Brings alive the energy, excitement and viciousness of the racing circuit, and Hellé's constant struggle to remain part of a world dominated by rich men" --Observer "What a life! Hélène Delangle was not just the best woman racing driver in Europe between the wars, she was a life-force, exuberant and irrepressible . . . [Miranda Seymour] scrupulously documents the speculative passages, while creating a narrative which captures the helter-skelter gaiety of Hélène's career." --Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail, "There is an element ofSeabiscuitin the story of Helle Nice, the fearless French woman who raced the best drivers of the 1930s and won over her countrymen with her breathtaking skill and charm. And of course Nice's story, brilliantly told by Miranda Seymour, is highly relevant today, when women such as Indianapolis 500 driver Sarah Fisher are trying to break through in what has always been a man's sport." -Sam Posey, Grand Prix driver and author ofPlaying with Trains Advance Praise from the UK "Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack, Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver Hellé Nice will have you riveted to your seat. . . A dazzling portrait." --Pamela Norris,Literary Review "Spine-tingling . . . Seymour excels in conveying the wider social-historical context . . . and also the visceral excitement of racing in a Bugatti" --Christopher Silvester,Sunday Times "[The Bugatti Queen] is superb on the spectacle and allure of the track, and on what the sport is all about - death and, on the way, sex and speed." --Tom Payne,Daily Telegraph "Seymour writes with an elegance and verve her subject would have appreciated . . . [An] inspiring rediscovery." --Alan Judd,Spectator "Brings alive the energy, excitement and viciousness of the racing circuit, and Hellé's constant struggle to remain part of a world dominated by rich men" --Observer "What a life! Hélène Delangle was not just the best woman racing driver in Europe between the wars, she was a life-force, exuberant and irrepressible . . . [Miranda Seymour] scrupulously documents the speculative passages, while creating a narrative which captures the helter-skelter gaiety of Hélène's career." --Christopher Hudson,Daily Mail
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Dewey Decimal
796.72/092
Synopsis
"Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack," writes London's Literary Review, "Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver Hellé Nice will have you riveted to your seat." Indeed, the story of this record-shattering womanknown as "Hellish Nice" to her fans and "Hell on Ice" to her rivalsprovides a fascinating and unexpected view of Europe and America in the years between the wars. Transcending her provincial background, and taking the name "Hellé Nice," Hélène Delangle made her way into the Parisian demimonde of the 1920s as a nude model, ballerina, and cabaret dancer. But it was on the racetrack, thrilled by the combination of machinery and speed, that Nice would realize her destiny, becoming the "fastest woman in the world." Catching the attention of the formidable Ettore Bugatti, designer of the world's most desirable cars, Nice gained admission to the exclusive male club of drivers. Her readiness to pose for the camera with seductively half-closed eyes and a radiant smile, coupled with her willingness to risk her life for a record or a win, made Hellé Nice an irresistible commodity for Bugatti's marque. Impenitently promiscuous, her many lovers ranged from engineers and mechanics to aristocrats of the racing world such as Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Count Bruno d'Harcourt. A racer of thrilling audacity, Hellé Nice competed in numerous Grand Prix, was the only woman to drive the treacherous American dirt tracks and speedbowls in the 1930s, and set new land-speed records until a notorious accident in Brazil nearly ended her racing career. Her comeback impeded by the war, she lived out the Occupation in the South of France. In 1949, she was mysteriously denounced by a hostile fellow driver as a Gestapo agent. Eventually, Hellé Nice would die in obscurity, the shadow on her reputation causing her name to be written out of racing history. Drawn from a remarkable cache of newly discovered papers, Miranda Seymour's Bugatti Queen sheds new light on both the treacherous world of international racing and life in Occupied France, while revealing the story of a fearless and passionate woman who lived for challenge.
LC Classification Number
GV1032.N53S49 2004
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