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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-10144236159X

ISBN-139781442361591

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038375345

Product Key Features

Book TitleStory Lately Told : Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

Publication Year2013

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, General

LanguageEnglish

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorAnjelica Huston

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 In.

Item Length5.9 In.

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Width5.1 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes6 vols.

Dewey Decimal791.4302/8092 B

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisWriting with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse, Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which-between movies-her father brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O'Toole and Marlon Brando. Every morning, Anjelica and her brother visited their father while he took his breakfast in bed. "What news?" he'd ask. "I'd seen him the night before," Anjelica recalls. "There wasn't much to report." So she became a storyteller. In London, where she lives with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separate, Huston encounters the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudies Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet . Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she is devastated when her mother dies in a car crash. Months later she moves to New York, falls in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer Bob Richardson, and becomes a model. Living in the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigates a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York in the seventies. A Story Lately Told ends as Huston launches her Hollywood life. The second part of her story- Watch Me -opens in Los Angeles in 1973 and will be published in Fall 2014. Beguiling and beautifully written, Huston's memoir is a treasure., Anjelica Huston's "gorgeously written" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) memoir is "an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life...A classic" ( Vanity Fair ). In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life--her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which--between movies--her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O'Toole and Marlon Brando. In London, where she lived with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separated, Huston encountered the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudied Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet . Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she was devastated when her mother died in a car crash. Months later she moved to New York, fell in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer, Bob Richardson, and became a model. Living in the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigated a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York in the seventies. A Story Lately Told is an "evocative" ( The New York Times ), "magically beautiful" ( The Boston Globe ) memoir. Huston's second memoir, Watch Me , will be published in November 2014.