Book : A Fine Romance - Bergen, Candice

-Titulo Original : A Fine Romance

-Fabricante :

Simon & Schuster

-Descripcion Original:

In this New York Times bestseller, acclaimed actress Candice Bergen “shows how to do a memoir right...The self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergen’s first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been deepened by life’s surprises” (The New York Times Book Review).“Candice Bergen is unflinchingly honest” (The Washington Post), and in A Fine Romance she describes her first marriage at age thirty-four to famous French director Louis Malle; her overpowering love for her daughter, Chloe; the unleashing of her inner comic with Murphy Brown; her trauma over Malle’s death; her joy at finding new love; and her pride at watching Chloe blossom. In her decidedly nontraditional marriage to the insatiably curious Louis, Bergen takes readers on world travels to the sets where each made films. Pregnant with Chloe at age thirty-nine, this mature primigravida also recounts a journey through motherhood that includes plundering the Warner Bros. costume closets for Halloween getups and never leaving her ever-expanding menagerie out of the fun. She offers priceless, behind-the-scenes looks at Murphy Brown, from caterwauling with Aretha Franklin to the surreal experience of becoming headline news when Dan Quayle took exception to her character becoming a single mother. Bergen tackles familiar rites of passage with moving honesty: the rigors of caring for a spouse in his final illness, getting older, and falling in love again after she was tricked into a blind date. By the time the last page is turned, “we’re all likely to be wishing Bergen herself-funny, insightful, self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that), and slugging her way through her older years with bemused determination-was living next door” (USA TODAY). Review Candice Bergen shows how to do a memoir right. . . . The self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergens first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been deepened by lifes surprises. . . . As a fictional newswoman, Murphy Brown was iconically brassy. As a memoirist, Candice Bergen is flesh-and-blood classy. The New York Times Book Review“Bergen is . . . daring in her smart, self-mocking memoir A Fine Romance. . . . She’s awfully good company.” The Wall Street Journal“Bergen may not have had Murphy’s sharp elbows or unswerving career focus, but she reveals herself to be just as complicated and sophisticated as her television counterpart-and infinitely more introspective. . . . [A Fine Romance] succeeds in the way a good memoir should. It presents a human life in full-with great glories and heartaches and watercolored memories. Bergen tells her story with humor, confidence and candor. Perhaps she’s not so different from Murphy after all. The Washington Post“A Fine Romance is just that. Candice tells her own story with honesty and humor-a story of loves lost and found, of marriages, joys and heartaches. I am not sure Candice ever realized her own beauty or how well she writes. Well, she is, and she does.” -- Barbara Walters“Candice Bergens memoir is moving with the wisdom that only age can bring. The woman you thought had everything has been through more than most of us could bear. Revelatory, anguished, and utterly inspirational.” -- Bette Midler, author of A View from a BroadYoull fall for Bergens A Fine Romance. . . . Her writing and storytelling are superb throughout. . . . With this memoir, were all likely to be wishing Bergen herself-funny, insightful, self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that), and slugging her way through her older years with bemused determination-was living next door.” USA Today“Candice’s book is candid, honest, interesting, and reading it, you love her more than ever.” -- Diane von Furstenberg, author of The Woman I Wanted to Be“Bergen is a talented and graceful writer-something she first demonstrated in Knock Wood, which chronicled her Hollywood