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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307267986
An astonishing and at times outright comic memoir that marks
the brilliant debut of a writer raised in a creative, bohemian
household characterized by extreme privilege tinged with
neglect.
Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo-Irish families, the
Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells a stunning story of coming to terms
with her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. It is
also the story of her intense relationship with her formidably
intelligent and complicated mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood.
A keen observer with an incisive eye, a wicked sense of humor, and
no self-pity, Lowell sets a wide range of scenes with a truly
unexpected, almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us to
such eccentric figures as her maternal grandmother, Maureen, the
Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from the
marchioness’s annual ball for her idol and old friend, the Queen
Mother, to Maureen’s stately Irish home, Clandeboye (where the
marchioness hopes to die), to summers in Dufferin’s villa in
Sardinia; through moves to carelessly furnished, drafty, too-large
English country houses with her mother and stepfather, the poet
Robert Lowell; to working in Manhattan at Miramax Books for Harvey
Weinstein and a trip with his brother, Bob, to the Academy Awards;
to her wedding at New York’s Rainbow Room and finally to a life
with her daughter. Ivana also has darker stories to tell including
her own stints in rehab, and discovering, after her mother’s death,
the secret Lady Caroline had successfully kept from her.
Why Not Say What Happened? introduces a dazzling new literary
voice and the fascinating story of a tragic and remarkable
family.
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