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Above the line : my wild oats adventure / Shirley MacLaine.
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- ISBN: 9781501136412 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 216 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2016.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 791.43028092 MacLa | 31681010003382 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The Academy Award-winning actress and best-selling author describes her remarkable experiences during the making of "Wild Oats" on the Canary Islands, describing the daily obstacles faced by the production's cast and crew and her astonishing memories of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. - Baker & Taylor
The actress describes her remarkable experiences during the making of "Wild Oats" on the Canary Islands, describing the daily obstacles faced by the production's cast and crew and her astonishing memories of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. - Simon and Schuster
A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaineâs remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.
Her agent told her not to get on the plane. The male leads werenât even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been re-written countless times. And yet something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the filmâs location shoot in the far-off Canary Islandsâand straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life.
The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of historyâs most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spainâs Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the islandâs cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend?
The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirleyâs past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative memoir essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be humanâboth where we came from and where we are going.
