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...paparazzi would have already spotted her at 16 snogging a comely Danish acrobat who appeared with her in a stage production of Aladdin, and that would've been that. Instead, we've had to wait for her to tell us about it herself in a frank and fascinating memoir called Home (Hyperion; 339 pages...
Home is subtitled A Memoir of My Early Years, and it takes us only through 1962, post--My Fair Lady and Camelot but pre-Poppins. But it gives us a full helping of backstage gossip, from a drunken, amorous Richard Burton to an explosively flatulent Rex Harrison. Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough. Maybe too tough--she lets us backstage, but she never quite takes us upstairs, into her head. (Moss Hart, trying gamely to get Andrews to emote in My Fair Lady, said, sighing, "She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder...
...alone, De Bernières in A Partisan's Daughter departs from what he describes as his usual "complicated, Latinate" writing style. He allows Roza and Chris to alternate in telling their stories, using their own raw and candid language. As a result, the novel reads like a memoir, which is fitting since De Bernières says Roza is the literary incarnation of a Serbian housemate he lived with in the late '70s. "When I left that house I heard her voice going through my mind for months," he recalls, "and I wrote all her stories down...
...book, “Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq,” is a memoir of the semester he spent there: a reconciliation between historical realities and idealism, and a powerful documentation of the everyday lives of young Iraqi Kurds...
...Would you categorize this as a self-help book? I don't know how quite to categorize it. My fast way to describe it is a "quirky, personal memoir." Because, to me - and I tried to write it this way - you could read it in a variety of ways. You could read it and just have it be funny. You could read it and learn about animals and animal behavior and training. You could read it and just get some general food for thought, like philosophy. Or you could really look toward specific ideas to improve relationships...