A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DGAKB4Q | Format: PDF
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Description
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.
John Huston was filming The African Queen - in the Belgian Congo - when he received a telegram from his wife announcing the birth of a healthy baby girl. She named her Anjelica, after her mother.
Now, the magnificent Academy Award-winning actress shares the story of her deeply unconventional life. 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 Faithful 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.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 28 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: November 19, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DGAKB4Q
Walter Huston is probably best known for his wonderful performance as the old-timer in the 1948 classic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed and written by his son, John Huston. That movie went on to win the father a best supporting actor Oscar and the son two Oscars for best screenplay and best director. Thirty-seven years later Walter Huston's granddaughter, Anjelica, would go on to win a best supporting actress Oscar for her fierce performance as a mob boss's daughter in Prizzi's Honor, a film directed by her father, John Huston. Clearly this astonishingly talented and creative family's story needed to be told, and Anjelica Huston does just that in her exquisitely written, though often meandering memoir, A Story Lately Told.
The book covers the childhood and adolescence of Anjelica in Ireland, London, and New York (the second part of the memoir will be published in 2014). Her recollections of Ireland present a kaleidoscope of images: a charmed childhood filled with doting servants, a beautiful and loving mother, a menagerie of animals, and days spent roaming the green Irish countryside with her brother. The only imperfection in this idyllic life is the strained relationship between her mother, who sacrificed a career as a prima ballerina to marry and have children, and her father, a demanding, flamboyant, and charming womanizer. The remainder of the book recounts her less idyllic life in London and New York--including her parent's divorce, her mother's sudden death, her modeling career, and her rocky love affair with photographer, Bob Richardson.
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