{"product_id":"love-child-a-memoir-of-family-lost-and-found-9781416551584","title":"Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found","description":"\u003cb\u003e- Inside a legendary American family: Allegra Huston was the third child of John Huston's fourth wife, the beautiful ballet dancer Ricki Soma.\u003c\/b\u003e In this graceful, penetrating memoir, Allegra takes us into the world of a child unmoored by her mother's sudden death and sent on an odyssey which took her from John Huston's fabulous estate in Ireland, to the American suburbs, to a hidden paradise in Mexico--and, at the side of her older sister Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra paints a vivid, caring, and affecting portrait of her parents and the luminous circle of friends, acquaintances, lovers, and artists who were a part of family life. . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- A revelatory twist and family connection: At the age of twelve Allegra Huston discovered her biological father to be the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. Suffused with a quiet intensity of emotion, \u003ci\u003eLove Child\u003c\/i\u003e explores family secrets and family bonds, and the unreliable certainties of memory--and ends with an unexpected triumph..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuston, Allegra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ALLEGRA HUSTON was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto \u0026amp; Windus publishers in London and Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson, where she was Editorial Director from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor for more than ten years, her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e (all in the UK), in French \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the U.S. in \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eSanta Fean\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMothering\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her six-year-old son, Rafa, and his father, Cisco Guevara. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726562857234,"sku":"9781416551584","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c3208fc-ec7d-40e7-a41f-ab4f9358ec65.jpg?v=1734875021","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-child-a-memoir-of-family-lost-and-found-9781416551584","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}