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The Hollywood Daughter
Kate Alcott
Doubleday
March 2017
On Sale: March 7, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 0385540639
EAN: 9780385540636
Kindle: B01GYPPN06
Hardcover / e-Book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of
The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes
a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's
affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to
reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a major star after movies
like Casablanca and Joan of Arc—has a baby out
of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto
Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity,
Bergman's fall shocked her legions of American fans. Growing up in Hollywood, Jessica Malloy watches as her PR
executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick
Studio. Over years of fleeting interactions with the
actress, Jesse comes to idolize Ingrid, who she considered
not only the epitome of elegance and integrity, but also the
picture-perfect mother, an area where her own difficult mom
falls short. In a heated era of McCarthyism and extreme censorship,
Ingrid's affair sets off an international scandal that robs
seventeen-year-old Jesse of her childhood hero. When the
stress placed on Jesse's father begins to reveal hidden
truths about the Malloy family, Jesse's eyes are opened to
the complex realities of life—and love. Beautifully written and deeply moving, The Hollywood
Daughter is an intimate novel of self-discovery that
evokes a Hollywood sparkling with glamour and vivid drama.
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