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Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Scribner
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 1451656297
EAN: 9781451656299
Kindle: B00A286Q12
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Writing 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.
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