The object parade / Dinah Lenney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenney, Dinah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenney, Dinah.

Actresses--United States--Biography.

Actresses.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2014]

Summary:

"This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing - real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Carpet Bag

This Old Watch

Charlie's Piano

Metronome

Dinah's Room

The General's Table

Spoon

Mole

Piano, Too

Gertude's Scarf

II.

Chandelier

Chicken Stew

Nests

Collar

Charm

Flight Jacket

Green Earrings

Little Black Dress

Little Black Dress, Two

Ferris Wheel

Stick Kite

III.

Scoop

Eggs

Two Guitars

Script

Christmas Tree

Breakfront

Spice Chest

Jeans and Clogs

Poster

Letter to Dad

Instructions.

ISBN:

9781619023000

1619023008

OCLC:

860756178