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On Sunset : a memoir / by Kathryn Harrison.
"A memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385542678 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Subject: | Harrison, Kathryn > Childhood and youth. Harrison, Kathryn > Family. Novelists, American > 20th century > Family relationships. Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 818.5403 Harri | 31681010121614 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The author recounts her childhood in a fading mansion near above Sunset Boulevard and being raised by her eccentric grandfather, a former Alaskan fur-trader, and her grandmother, a Jewish merchant in Shanghai, where she was courted exiled Russian princes. - Baker & Taylor
Describes the author's unusual childhood growing up in a fading mansion in Bel Air with her eccentric grandparents sharing their letters, artifacts, and stories. - Baker & Taylor
"A memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California"-- - Random House, Inc.
Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents'until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, On Sunset seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.
