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

Anjelica Huston

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9780857207425: A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York

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ISBN 10: 0857207423 ISBN 13: 9780857207425

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster UK, 2013

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Anjelica Huston's life, once she turned 15 and moved to London, is a who's who of popular culture from the Rolling Stones in late '60s Londonto the Chelsea Hotel in New York when she was modelling in the early '70s, to Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty in '70s and '80s Los Angeles, to Hunter Thompson in Aspen. She is a force who has won every possible acting award, working with some of the greatest directors of her time, and a friend to many of the greatest artists, writers, actors and musicians. One could say it was a charmed life, an enviable life, and she would agree. But it is a life also full of so much tragedy and sadness, and Huston writes about both triumph and hardship with extraordinary eloquence and depth. A stunning achievement, her memoir ranks among the best in the genre.

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'Huston combines an extraordinary life with a real gift for storytelling. Her dry wit, eloquent understatement and her vivid memory for the places, people and feelings of her childhood and early adulthood make this one of those very rare celebrity memoirs that you ll want to read and re-read for the sheer beauty of its writing' Daily Mail

'Her descriptions of her childhood in Ireland sparkle with delight (she has a wonderful eye), but there are undertows of unease almost from the start... haunting mixture of bright, sensuous description and dark emotional undercurrents... Heady stuff' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

'You'd expect Anjelica Huston's memoir to be rich in stories from the golden days of cinema, but what's particularly enjoyable about her story is the rhapsodic way that she beautifully describes that bygone world. A second volume of the book promises to continue the story from 1974 onwards; on this evidence, it should be beguiling stuff' Alexander Larman, Observer

'An extraordinarily vividly evoked account. Here is a tough tale told straight and wonderfully well' Sam Leith, Guardian
'Unlike many celebrity memoirs, Anjelica Huston's is worth reading. Instead of the usual ghosted drivel, she offers as she does in her acting a quirky charm and a reckless honesty. Her story is an interesting one, and is generally well written, sometimes even beautifully so'Spectator

'Clinically observed, bittersweet and unsentimental, this memoir condenses anecdotes that in other books would last pages into a paragraph; a good omen for the next volume, which takes up the baton in 1973'

'This is a fascinating account of an unusual life'
Independent on Sunday

'It is a beautifully crafted account packed with glamour and tragedy' Julia Richardson, Daily Mail

'Heady stuff' --Sunday Times

L'autore:

An award-winning actress and director, Anjelica Huston has received multiple Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy nominations. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress in Prizzi's Honour, making the Huston family - beginning with her grandfather, Walter, and father, John - the first to include three generations of Oscar winners.

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