Her story begins with a familiar tale of career-family trade-offs.
She proceeds to tell a tale of career-advancing trips to Hollywood, from where she is rejected for, she claims, having the wrong shape of body.
Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is a bizarre tale of the career of a mythical hero and religious prophet, set in a satirical microcosm of vast, computer-run universities.
Tamara Mellon's life combines the hallmarks of Greek tragedy, Dynasty-style soperaperandnd the modern fairy tale of a career woman who longed to have it all.
"It's kind of a tale of two careers.
Woven through this tale of the careers of two of fashion's enfants terribles is another: the rise and the subsequent battles of two French luxury conglomerates, LVMH (run by Bernard Arnault) and PPR (now Kering, run by François-Henri François-Henri Pinault
For one thing, there's the huge hunk of paper in the reader's right hand: more than seven hundred pages, suggesting grander ambitions than a tale of successful careers.
A blond 6-footer, he regaled patrons with sports lore and tales of his career as a quarterback at Xavier High School in Manhattan, "when he threw the most touchdowns in the league that year, and also threw the most interceptions," said a friend, Brendan McCormick.
Not because I wanted to see if it was the same as it is in my ongoing nightmare about trying to find the geography room because I haven't turned up to a class for two years and have an A-level the next day (for the record, I loved geography and never sweated it at the time), or to bore the girls with tales of my career.
His autobiography is not simply the tale of an entertainment career, it's a miracle narrative and a yarn of accomplishing dreams without losing sight of what makes a man truly great.
Riordan's tale of his publishing career was, perhaps, oddly pitched for a pre-teen and teen-aged audience; when he revealed that the advance he received for his first novel was fifteen thousand dollars, my nine-year-old son whispered to me, "That's a lot of money".
