THE LOVE CHILD: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY LOST AND FOUND

Book ID/图书代码： 12300008B24441

English Summary/英文概要： A deeply moving, beautifully written memoir by Allegra Huston, of her famous and fragmented family, her motherless childhood, and the extraordinary revelation that turned her world upside down—a seductive insight into the world of a child adrift within one of Hollywood’s great dynasties, and the story of one woman’s reconciliation with a cruel yet generous fate.
Allegra Huston was the third child of John Huston’s fourth wife, the beautiful ballet dancer Ricki Soma. In this graceful, subtly penetrating memoir, Allegra takes us into the world of a child cut loose 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 the greatest stars of Hollywood. With clear-eyed tenderness Allegra describes the constant upheavals of a family that defied convention, and how she found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.
At the age of twelve Allegra Huston discovered her biological father to be the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. Her sense of self thrown into disarray, Allegra found herself ensnared in awkward and unwelcome truths. Suffused with a quiet intensity of emotion, Love Child explores family secrets and family bonds, and the unreliable certainties of memory—and ends with an unexpected triumph, in which the broken is made whole and the broad blessing of Allegra’s lost mother’s unintended gift to her is revealed.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿莱格拉•休斯顿所带来的一部文笔优美，感人至深的回忆，她那著名却支离破碎的家庭，没有母亲的童年，以独特的视角，描述了一个孩子在好莱坞时期漂泊的经历，以及一个女性和残酷而又慷慨的命运之间的调和。
阿莱格斯•休斯顿是约翰•休斯顿第四任妻子瑞琪•索玛的第三个小孩，瑞琪是一位美丽的芭蕾舞者，在这个优雅又细致的回忆中，阿莱格斯将我们带进一个小孩因母亲的突然死亡而被割裂的世界，母亲去世后，她随即被带离约翰•休斯顿的家，被送往美国的郊区，随后又到墨西哥一个几乎与世隔绝的地方。与之相比，姐姐奥吉利卡则被送往好莱坞最著名影星的山顶寓所。
12岁时，阿莱格拉发现自己的生父是英国的贵族和历史学家，约翰•朱利叶斯•诺维奇，她的自我意识一下子又陷入混乱，并同时陷入到一个尴尬且不受欢迎的处境。一种安静却又强烈的情感慢慢扩散开来，本书深入探究了家庭的秘密和债务，并以意想不到的欢愉来结局。(zh)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Allegra Huston was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Times, the Independent, the Tatler, and Harper’s Bazaar (all in the UK), and French Vogue. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her son, Rafa, and his father, Cisco Guevara.
阿莱格拉•休斯顿（Allegra Huston），出生于伦敦，成长于爱尔兰，长岛，和洛杉矶。她的作品曾发表在多家刊物上，如《泰晤士报》，《独立报》，《闲话报》，《时尚芭莎》，《法国时尚》。她现今与儿子拉法，丈夫思科•格瓦拉居住在新墨西哥州的陶斯。

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