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Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Allegra Huston
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Description for Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Paperback. A moving and enchanting memoir told from within one of America's great Hollywood dynasties by the daughter of two famous men - John Huston and John Julius Norwich Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke - the legendary film director John Huston - with the words, 'This is your father'. So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland, to the Long Island suburbs, to a hidden paradise in Mexico - and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra's is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if ... Read more
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke - the legendary film director John Huston - with the words, 'This is your father'. So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland, to the Long Island suburbs, to a hidden paradise in Mexico - and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra's is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408803066
SKU
V9781408803066
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About Allegra Huston
ALLEGRA HUSTON was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island and Los Angeles. She worked in publishing for Chatto & Windus and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was editorial director, and then as a writer, her work appearing in various publications, including The Times, the Independent, Tatler, and Harper's Bazaar as well as French Vogue. She now lives ... Read more
Reviews for Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
'This extraordinary book reveals the all but unendurable sorrow of loss, and the difficulties of those unwilling to live in a world without love. Because Huston's concerns are with what she has seen and learned, rather than with alienation and the affixing of blame, her memoir glimmers with triumphant wisdom' Susanna Moore 'A fascinating and profoundly moving exploration of ... Read more