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Gallery Books, January 2012
Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1439187673
ISBN-13: 9781439187678
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To everyone else, John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty, but to RoseMarie Terenzio he was an entitled nuisance—and she wasn’t afraid to let him know it. RoseMarie was his personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. In this, her first memoir, she bravely recounts her own Fairy Tale Interrupted, describing the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and John F. Kennedy Jr. Funny, moving, and fresh, her memoir is a unique account by the woman who was with him through dating, politics, the paparazzi, and his marriage to Carolyn Bessette. Her street smarts, paired with her loyalty, candor, and relentless work ethic, made her the trusted insider to America’s most famous man. After John and Carolyn’s tragic, untimely deaths on July 16, 1999, RoseMarie’s whole world came crashing down around her, along with her hopes for the future. Only now does she feel she can tell her story in a book that is at once a moving tribute and a very real picture of her friend and employer. Many books have sought to capture John F. Kennedy Jr.’s life. None has been as intimate or as honest as Fairy Tale Interrupted, a true portrait of the man behind the icon—patient, protective, surprisingly goofy, occasionally thoughtless and self-involved, yet capable of extraordinary generosity and kindness. She reveals what John really had in mind for his political future, how he handled media attention, and the reality of life behind the scenes at George magazine. She also shares how she dealt with the ultra-secretive planning of John and Carolyn’s wedding on Cumberland Island—and the heartbreak of their deaths. Fairy Tale Interrupted is a deeply loving story and a fascinating adventure, filled with warmth, humor, insight, and five years’ worth of unforgettable memories.
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Browse Inside Fairy Tale Interrupted“A window into the time a president’s son tried to make it in New York publishing, in the final giddy years before the Internet changed everything.”
--The Washington Post
“Terenzio doesn’t dwell any longer than necessary on Kennedy’s death . . . but she was in his apartment that night and has a story to tell.”
--The Boston Globe
“Amazing revelations. . . . Working Girl meets What Remains in this behind-the-scenes story.”
--Good Reads
“No one is better at observing the affairs of a magazine than the boss’s assistant: with sprezzatura to spare, Terenzio delivers tantalizing accounts of staff cattiness and celebrity dealings. . . . A case study of the fascinating relationship between the often unsentimental executive who requests the impossible and the loyal, fiercely protective assistant.”
--Macleans
“Candid. . . . Terenzio deftly reconstructs the wonderfully addictive yet strange and high-pressure world in which she worked. . . . She chronicles her time with Kennedy within the glorious but often brutal bubble that encircled his world, and what he taught her about living.”
--Publishers Weekly
“A memoir of the late nineties, and an era gone by. . . . A suitably emotional ending, an up-close-and-personal account.”
--Celebrity Books
“Fairy Tale Interrupted joins a long list of books about one of America’s most tragic families. It’s probably one of the most personal and heartfelt narratives. . . . It makes Kennedy more human and shows a lovable side that should be regarded as sweet tribute to his memory.”
--The Washington Post
“Terenzio doesn’t dwell any longer than necessary on Kennedy’s death . . . but she was in his apartment that night and has a story to tell.”
--The Boston Globe
“Amazing revelations. . . . Working Girl meets What Remains in this behind-the-scenes story.”
--Good Reads
“No one is better at observing the affairs of a magazine than the boss’s assistant: with sprezzatura to spare, Terenzio delivers tantalizing accounts of staff cattiness and celebrity dealings. . . . A case study of the fascinating relationship between the often unsentimental executive who requests the impossible and the loyal, fiercely protective assistant.”
--Macleans
“Candid. . . . Terenzio deftly reconstructs the wonderfully addictive yet strange and high-pressure world in which she worked. . . . She chronicles her time with Kennedy within the glorious but often brutal bubble that encircled his world, and what he taught her about living.”
--Publishers Weekly
“A memoir of the late nineties, and an era gone by. . . . A suitably emotional ending, an up-close-and-personal account.”
--Celebrity Books
“Fairy Tale Interrupted joins a long list of books about one of America’s most tragic families. It’s probably one of the most personal and heartfelt narratives. . . . It makes Kennedy more human and shows a lovable side that should be regarded as sweet tribute to his memory.”
-- Austin American-Statesman
“Captivating … told with style and grace.”
-- Kirkus Reviews
Mail Online UK, January 27, 2012
...the fashion designer played an unlikely but instrumental role in the American wedding of the Nineties. According to RoseMarie Terenzio, JFK Jr's long-standing assistant, the build-up to the assassinated president's son and Carolyn Bessette's ...
Austin American Statesman, January 23, 2012
...RoseMarie Terenzio, a brassy gal from the Bronx, worked as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s executive assistant from 1994 until his death in 1999 and saw the ups and downs of ...
ABC News, January 23, 2012
...RoseMarie Terenzio discusses her new book, "Fairy Tale Interrupted" on "GMA." ...
ABC News, January 23, 2012
...RoseMarie Terenzio discusses her new book, "Fairy Tale Interrupted" on "GMA." ...
Mail Online UK, January 20, 2012
...wife fought over unwanted publicity in the years before their death, his long-standing assistant has revealed. According to RoseMarie Terenzio, John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette frequently fell out over the media attention which he had ...
Mail Online UK, January 20, 2012
...wife fought over unwanted publicity in the years before their death, his long-standing assistant has revealed. According to RoseMarie Terenzio, John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette frequently fell out over the media attention which he had ...
ABC News, January 20, 2012
...strain for John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? One word: Paparazzi. In her new book, “Fairy Tale Interrupted,” JFK Jr.’s personal assistant and confidante RoseMarie Terenzio reveals that the simmering tension ...
Zimbio, January 19, 2012
...RoseMarie Terenzio, a former assistant for John F. Kennedy Jr., tells the story of his engagement in a new book, revealing his marriage to Carolyn Bessette was less than perfect. Air ...
WHDH-TV, January 19, 2012
...the most eligible bachelor in the world, found a soul mate in Caroline Bessette. In a new book, ‘Fairy Tale Interrupted,’ RoseMarie Terenzio says there was more to this couple than their public persona. She writes: “John was more than ...
New York Post, January 18, 2012
...of girl I imagined would date someone like John and she intimidated the hell out of me, writes RoseMarie Terenzio in her new book, Fairy Tale Interrupted, out Tuesday. Wearing a Calvin Klein pencil skirt, a white T-shirt, stiletto heels and ...
Mail Online UK, January 18, 2012
...assistant has revealed how she had talked his wife into taking the fateful flight the couple perished on. RoseMarie Terenzio, 44, was John F Kennedy Jr's personal assistant, publicist and one of his closest confidantes during the last five ...
411mania.com, January 3, 2012
...to pose as his mother Jackie Kennedy Onassis on the cover of his magazine George. A new book, Fairy Tale Interrupted, details the information. Madonna turned down his request because she didn't think she could do justice to Jackie O. The ...
Topnews.in, January 2, 2012
...O] justice,” according to a new book. In the summer of 1996, JFK Jr. had asked his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, who should grace the cover of his September “Women in Politics” issue. Terenzio, author of the memoir, “Fairy Tale ...
RealBollywood.com, January 2, 2012
...justice," according to a new book. In the summer of 1996, JFK Jr. had asked his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, who should grace the cover of his September "Women in Politics" issue. Terenzio, author of the memoir, "Fairy Tale Interrupted," ...
Herald Sun, January 1, 2012
...have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books," JFK Jr. told his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, the author of Fairy Tale Interrupted, which chronicles her five years as John John's confidante and publicist until his untimely death ...
FOXNews.com, January 1, 2012
...have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books," JFK Jr. told his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, the author of "Fairy Tale Interrupted," which chronicles her five years as John John's confidante and publicist until his untimely death ...
New York Post, January 1, 2012
...Well have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books, JFK Jr. told his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, author of the memoir, Fairy Tale Interrupted, which chronicles her five years as John Johns confidante and publicist until his ...
New York Post, January 1, 2012
...ll have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books,” JFK Jr. told his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, author of the memoir, “Fairy Tale Interrupted,” which chronicles her five years as John John’s confidante and publicist until ...
