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My Wild Oats Adventure
Atria Books
March 2016
On Sale: March 1, 2016
224 pages
ISBN: 1501136410
EAN: 9781501136412
Kindle: B014PUQXQK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York
Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley
MacLaine’s remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the
Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there
brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. Her agent told her not to get on the plane. The male leads
weren’t even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The
script had been re-written countless times. And yet
something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the
film’s location shoot in the far-off Canary Islands—and
straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and
paradigm-shifting adventures of her life. The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the
cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with
ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads
Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of
one of history’s most elusive yet endlessly intriguing
places. Scholars have long theorized that Spain’s Canary
Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of
Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium,
Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the island’s
cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we
learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend? The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirley’s
past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations
that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when
looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative memoir
essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding
of what it means to be human—both where we came from and
where we are going.
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