HOUSE IN FRANCE, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

  　Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a
daughter’s brilliant and witty memoir of her mother and
stepfather—Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American
journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford
philosopher—and the life they lived at the center of absolutely
everything.
　　Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London’s lively, liberated
intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Here are Alan Bennett,
Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, Jonathan Miller,
Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Kennedy, and Claus von
Bülow, and later in New York a completely different mix: Mayor John
Lindsay, Mike Tyson, and lingerie king Fernando Sánchez. We meet
Wells’s adventurous mother, a television commentator earning a
reputation for her outspoken style and progressive views, and her
stepfather, an icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophy,
proving himself as prodigious a womanizer as he is a thinker. Woven
throughout is La Migoua, the old farmhouse in France, where
evenings were spent cooking bouillabaisse with fish bought that
morning in the market in Bandol, and afternoons included visits to
M. F. K. Fisher’s favorite café on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix, with
a late-night stop at the bullfighters’ bar in Arles. The house
perched on a hill between Toulon and Marseille was where her
parents and their friends came together every year, and where Gully
herself learned some of the enduring lessons of a life well
lived.
　　The House in France is a spellbinding story with a luminous sense
of place and a dazzling portrait of a woman who “caught the spirit
of the sixties” and one of the most important intellectual figures
of the twentieth century, drawn from the vivid memory of the child
who adored them both.

　　Gully Wells was born in Paris, brought up in
London, educated at Oxford, and moved to New York in 1979. She is a
features editor at Condé Nast Traveler magazine. She lives
in Brooklyn with her husband and children.