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A review by stevienlcf
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York by Anjelica Huston
3.0
Angelica Huston, the daughter of the legendary director, John Huston, and his much younger fourth wife, a glamorous ballerina, Enrica "Ricki" Soma, writes about her entitled early years on her family's vast Irish estate where she and her brother, Tony, rode horses and fraternized with the likes of Peter O'Toole, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and other Hollywood luminaries. She is oddly unperturbed that when her often absent father was in residence, he lived in splendor in the Big House (often with a girlfriend in tow), while she, Tony and Ricki remained sequestered in the Little House. Both of her parents were unfaithful during their marriage and, when they separated, they neglected to give their children any explanation, although both had children with other partners.
Huston's life was upended at 17 when Ricki died in a car crash. Huston left London (where she had been an understudy to Mick Jagger's girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, in a production of "Hamlet")and went to New York where she embarked on a successful modeling career. The book ends abruptly when she breaks off a relationship with a 42-year-old photographer (whom she later learns was both bipolar and schizophrenic) and moves to Los Angeles where she lives with her father's then-current wife. Huston's A-list anecdotes kept me reading this meandering memoir, and her publisher has promised that the second installment will focus on her relationship with Jack Nicholson.
Huston's life was upended at 17 when Ricki died in a car crash. Huston left London (where she had been an understudy to Mick Jagger's girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, in a production of "Hamlet")and went to New York where she embarked on a successful modeling career. The book ends abruptly when she breaks off a relationship with a 42-year-old photographer (whom she later learns was both bipolar and schizophrenic) and moves to Los Angeles where she lives with her father's then-current wife. Huston's A-list anecdotes kept me reading this meandering memoir, and her publisher has promised that the second installment will focus on her relationship with Jack Nicholson.