{"product_id":"9780349017709","title":"IT's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*One of the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Greatest Books of 2025*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wildly entertaining' \u003ci\u003eDazed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon'\u003ci\u003e Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans Bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318024511861,"sku":"9780349017709","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780349017709.jpg?v=1782490707","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780349017709","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}