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“Lucid, loving, all a memoir should be.”
— Joan Didion, National Book Award–winning author
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“A Story Lately Told is filled with glitter, glamour, and excitement, but it is underpinned by loss, solitude, and estrangement, and the need to tell the truth, which makes the book memorable and affecting. Anjelica Huston’s account of growing up in Ireland is fascinating and masterly, as is her version of life in London and New York in the 1960s.”
— Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author
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“A Story Lately Told is written with the magic of the Irish and a touch of the family genius. From her vivid descriptions of growing up in the horse country of County Galway, Ireland, to her glimpses of rough glamour in the Chelsea Hotel, Anjelica’s writing shines with her particular mix of intelligence, beauty, wit, and courage. Her book is gorgeous.”
— Mike Nichols, Academy Award-winning director
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“Evocative.”
— People
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“[Huston’s] lovely, novelistic
writing carries the book.”
— Entertainment Weekly
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“An elegant, funny, and frequently
haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic.”
— Vanity Fair
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“Compelling, thoughtful, starry
reading…What’s particularly enjoyable about her story is the rhapsodic way that
she beautifully describes that bygone world.”
— Guardian (UK)
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“[A Story Lately Told] is peopled by names like Carson McCullers,
John Steinbeck, Peter O’Toole, Marlon Brando, Monty Clift, and the succession
of gorgeous, interesting women who made up her father’s peripatetic life.
Anjelica can really write. The prologue alone to her memoir is worthy.”
— Huffington Post
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“[A Story Lately Told] contains a plethora of compelling tales.”
— New York magazine
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“Intriguing…Huston offers a
fascinating account of her charmed childhood (peppered with celebrities coming
to dinner) and her rebellious stage.”
— Shelf Awareness