The best of friends
Subtitle: Martha and me
By: Mariana Pasternak
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780061661273
Subjects: Friends and associates; Friendship; Female friendship
Description: A meditation on the dynamics of female friendship describes the author's life-defining relationship with Martha Stewart, relating the common experiences that bonded them and the factors that resulted in their estrangement.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : August 1997; title: pt. I. First encounter. Martha at the gate ; Coming to America ; Martha, matron of honor; title: pt. II. The best of friends. A friendship grows in Westport ; All good things ; After Andy ; Starting over ; Two women ; To the ends of the earth ; A queen among the pyramids ; Skylands ; Courting danger at Machu Picchu; title: Death of the heart. Piranhas in the Amazon ; The barefoot contessa ; Martha goes public ; The queen on her throne ; Martha moves to Bedford and goes global ; The beginning of the end ; Into the quicksand; title: pt. IV. The end of the affair. The investigation ; The trial.