Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

Author(s): Allegra Huston

Biography

- Inside a legendary American family: Allegra Huston was the third child of John Huston's fourth wife, the beautiful ballet dancer Ricki Soma. In this graceful, penetrating memoir, Allegra takes us into the world of a child unmoored by her mother's sudden death and sent on an odyssey which took her from John Huston's fabulous estate in Ireland, to the American suburbs, to a hidden paradise in Mexico--and, at the side of her older sister Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra paints a vivid, caring, and affecting portrait of her parents and the luminous circle of friends, acquaintances, lovers, and artists who were a part of family life. . - A revelatory twist and family connection: At the age of twelve Allegra Huston discovered her biological father to be the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. Suffused with a quiet intensity of emotion, Love Child explores family secrets and family bonds, and the unreliable certainties of memory--and ends with an unexpected triumph..


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781416551584
  • : Simon & Schuster
  • : Simon & Schuster
  • : 0.295
  • : April 2010
  • : 214mm X 142mm X 21mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Allegra Huston
  • : Paperback
  • : 791.43023309
  • : black & white illustrations, black & white plates