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Bacall, Lauren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0345402324 ISBN 13 : 9780345402325

Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Bacall Lauren

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"CANDID AND HONEST...A philosophical looking-backward and forward--an inquiry into the question 'Is that all there is?' "
--Liz Smith
New York Newsday
"FRANK AND AMUSING...[AND] BRIMMING WITH CONFESSIONS...Part career memoir and part meditation on what it's like to be a single woman of lingering glamour, enduring vitality and advancing age...The book has the Bacall voice behind it. Her writing echoes her deep, sardonic, no-nonsense timbre and jazzy tempo....Bacall is at her best when talking about friends she has loved and watched die. Bernstein, she says, was more than a little seductive; Huston, more than a little remote; Olivier, a survivor to the end."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"HER PROSE IS SPARE AND HONEST....A kaleidoscope of thoughts and ideas on loneliness, aging, and above all, surviving...There are also poignant reminiscences of the golden years of Hollywood and many of its leading creators."
--The Washington Post Book World
"SHE REMINDS US OF SOME FAMILIAR TRUTHS WORTH ATTENDING TO. . . .What she's writing about, Ms. Bacall explains, is 'life' and indeed her musings about getting older, about intimations of mortality, about living solo, about letting go of one's children will resonate with women who, like her, are of a certain age."
--The New York Times Book Review
"ENGROSSING. . .POIGNANT."
--People

Quatrième de couverture :

Lauren Bacall-role model and romantic heroine, movie star of five decades, two-time Tony Award-winning actress, wife of Humphrey Bogart, a woman whose celebrity and glamour only increase with time. In this spirited, straightforward, exhilarating audio, she shares her experience of life. This is the Bacall we have all come to admire-smart, funny, wise-talking to us openly, candidly, about work : its importance, its usefulness to her through the ups and downs and ups again of her career, its place in her life as a young bride, as a young mother, and today. About romance, about marriage, about loneliness...About long friendships (and how they evolved over time) with Laurence Olivier, Slim Keith, John Huston, and Leonard Bernstein. She talks about the driving impulse to make a perfect home... about the marriages of children, about being a daughter, a mother, a grandmother. About being restless, about letting go-of possessions, of expectations. About new beginnings (necessary or surprising or joyous) over the years-and now. Listening to this audio is like talking to a savvy best friend who has lived deeply and is frank (and funny) about what she has seen, what she has done, and what she has learned.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345402324
• ISBN 13: 9780345402325
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288