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The sister of Anjelica Huston describes how her childhood was marked by the sudden death of her ballerina mother and the discovery of her biological father's true identity, recounts her journey from her stepfather's wealthy Ireland estate to homes in the United States and Mexico, and her efforts to find balance in an unconventional family life of conflicting loyalties. Reprint.
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&; 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..
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