The House in France: A Memoir

Zusatztext So extravagantly entertaining are the opening chapters that you feel this might possibly be the most generous book ever written. Wells piles our plates high Informationen zum Autor Gully Wells was born in Paris, brought up in London, educated at Oxford, and moved to New York in 1979. She is the Features Editor of Condé Nast Traveler magazine and writes for them regularly from all over the world. She is married, has two children, and lives in Brooklyn. This is her first book. Klappentext A memoir of an extraordinary upbringing in an extraordinary house among extraordinary people. Gully Wells was the daughter of glamorous and unpredictable American journalist Dee Wells! and stepdaughter of A.J. Ayer. Their milieu included Bobby Kennedy! Mary Quant! Iris Murdoch! George Melly and Bertrand Russell! and the house! La Migoua in Provence is woven into her existence. Unsentimental and witty! it's a moving love letter to her adored mother. A vivid, funny and moving memoir about growing up in an astonishing family; a love-letter to a mother and to an extraordinary house Zusammenfassung A vivid, funny and moving memoir about growing up in an astonishing family; a love-letter to a mother and to an extraordinary house

Product details

• Authors: Gully Wells, Wells Gully
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9781408822258
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-2225-8
• No. of pages: 307
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Europe / France, Travel writing, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs