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050	0	0	_aCT3150.L69 _bA3 2010
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100	1		_aLowell, Ivana
245	1	0	_aWhy not say what happened? _b: a memoir _c/ Ivana Lowell
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2010.
300			_ax, 285 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
520			_aBorn 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.
600	1	4	_aLowell, Ivana
600	1	4	_aBlackwood, Caroline
600	1	4	_aGuinness family
650		4	_aMothers and daughters
651		4	_aIreland _v--Biography
651		4	_aEngland _v--Biography
651			_aUnited States _v-Biography
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