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The loveliest woman in America : a tragic actress, her lost diaries, and her granddaughter's search for home.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.P5396 G37 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaston, Bibi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pinchot, Rosamund.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Grandmothers.
- United States.
- Gaston, Bibi--Family.
- Gaston, Bibi.
- Grandmothers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow & Co., [2008]
- Summary:
- The author recounts her midlife round-the-world journey in search of lost elements from her actress grandmother's life after discovering the latter's hidden cache of diaries, letters, and scrapbooks.
- Contents:
- Requiem ix
- Cycle 1
- 1 The Miracle 3
- 2 The Landscape of Memory 52
- 3 A Chronology of Chaos 75
- Cycle 2
- 4 A Synonym for Love 99
- 5 The King of Jeeps 148
- 6 Paradise 177
- Cycle 3
- 7 Our Town 199
- 8 The Topography of the Brain 249
- 9 Beauty Sessions 300.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages [337]-339).
- ISBN:
- 9780060857707
- 0060857706
- OCLC:
- 156814736
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