Book summary

Picasso's granddaughter Marina--one of his heirs--tells all about her famous forebear, with an emphasis on his insensitivity to and neglect of her own generation.

Media reviews

"Yes, this book is badly written....Among the purple generalizations, however, is a truth that this particular subgenre of memoir presents, and that is the sad role of women in the lives of men who flourish in the seemingly liberal, seemingly tolerant world of arts and letters....One day we may see the memoirist who has the skill to write of this paradox clean and true....Until then, we should be gentle with Marina Picasso, who funnelled her massive inheritance into a philanthropic organization she founded for underprivileged children in Southeast Asia."