Why not say what happened? : a memoir
Lowell, Ivana
Why not say what happened? : a memoir / Ivana Lowell - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010. - x, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Born into a celebrated Anglo-Irish family, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells of coming to terms with her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. This is also the story of her intense relationship with her complicated mother, writer Caroline Blackwood. A keen observer with a wicked sense of humor and no self-pity, Lowell sets scenes with an almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us to such eccentrics as her grandmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from the marchioness's annual ball for her old friend, the Queen Mother, to her stately Irish home, to summers in Sardinia; through moves to carelessly furnished, too-large English country houses with her mother and stepfather, the poet Robert Lowell; to working in Manhattan at Miramax Books; to her wedding at New York's Rainbow Room and finally to a life with her daughter. Ivana also has darker stories to tell including her own stints in rehab, and discovering, after her mother's death, the secret Lady Caroline had successfully kept from her.
9780307267986
2010018775
Lowell, Ivana
Blackwood, Caroline
Guinness family
Mothers and daughters
Ireland----Biography
England----Biography
United States---Biography
CT3150.L69 / A3 2010
92 LOW
Why not say what happened? : a memoir / Ivana Lowell - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010. - x, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Born into a celebrated Anglo-Irish family, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells of coming to terms with her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. This is also the story of her intense relationship with her complicated mother, writer Caroline Blackwood. A keen observer with a wicked sense of humor and no self-pity, Lowell sets scenes with an almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us to such eccentrics as her grandmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from the marchioness's annual ball for her old friend, the Queen Mother, to her stately Irish home, to summers in Sardinia; through moves to carelessly furnished, too-large English country houses with her mother and stepfather, the poet Robert Lowell; to working in Manhattan at Miramax Books; to her wedding at New York's Rainbow Room and finally to a life with her daughter. Ivana also has darker stories to tell including her own stints in rehab, and discovering, after her mother's death, the secret Lady Caroline had successfully kept from her.
9780307267986
2010018775
Lowell, Ivana
Blackwood, Caroline
Guinness family
Mothers and daughters
Ireland----Biography
England----Biography
United States---Biography
CT3150.L69 / A3 2010
92 LOW
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