A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

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Anjelica Huston’s “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is “an elegant, funny, and often haunting reminiscence of the first twenty years of her life…A classic” (Vanity Fair).

In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the tale of her deeply unconventional early life—her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living along with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston used to be raised on an Irish estate to which—between movies—her father, director John Huston, brought his array of ordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O’Toole and Marlon Brando.

In London, where she lived along with her mother and brother within the early sixties when her parents separated, Huston encountered the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudied Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet. Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she used to be devastated when her mother died in a car crash. Months later she moved to New York, fell in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer, Bob Richardson, and was a model. Living within the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigated a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York within the seventies.

A Story In recent years Told is an “evocative” (The New York Times), “magically beautiful” (The Boston Globe) memoir. Huston’s second memoir, Watch Me, can be published in November 2014.

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