A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

Anjelica Hustonâ€™s â€œgorgeously writtenâ€ (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is â€œan elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her lifeâ€¦A classicâ€ (Vanity Fair).

In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early lifeâ€”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 whichâ€”between moviesâ€”her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter Oâ€™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 â€œevocativeâ€ (The New York Times), â€œmagically beautifulâ€ (The Boston Globe) memoir. Hustonâ€™s second memoir, Watch Me, will be published in November 2014.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2024-02-13
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781451656312

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2024-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781451656312

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

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