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love child a memoir of family lost and found
inside a legendary american family allegra huston was the third child of john hustons 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 mothers sudden death and sent on an odyssey which took her from john hustons 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 oneal 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 . . br 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 . .
paperback simon & schuster 2010 isbn13 9781416551584 isbn10 1416551581
abridged n isbn 13 9781416551584 number in series 1 number of pages 289 publisher simon & schuster release date 1271721600000