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‚¬Å“gorgeously writtenâ‚¬Â (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is â‚¬Å“an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her lifeâ‚¬Â¦A classicâ‚¬Â (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‚¬Å“evocativeâ‚¬Â (The New York Times), â‚¬Å“magically beautifulâ‚¬Â (The Boston Globe) memoir. Hustonâ‚¬s second memoir, Watch Me, will be published in November 2014.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-10-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451656305

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-10-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451656305

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

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