Loveliest Woman in America, The: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home - Tapa blanda

.a fascinating memoir... Her writing is deft and sure. .. poetic, wry, humorous and, above all, spoken with the voice of truth and compassion. With "The Loveliest Woman in America," she gives readers the topography of the heart of a family, and in it we find pieces of ourselves." -- Bangor Daily News

."a Dreiserian treatise on the corrosive use uses of money and class in America and how self-destructive patterns of behavior are often handed down in families.Bibi Gaston does a remarkable job piecing together this dramatic family history.." -- Washington Post

.".Uncovers a family history long obscured by secrets and lies.functions well as a window into a largely vanished social and cultural structure. Heartfelt and accomplished." -- Kirkus Reviews

...a granddaughter's search through familial silence for the grandmother, a beautiful and troubled actress, who committed suicide... leaving two young sons and a powerful mystery....wonderfully structured... a compelling story with characters of such life and particularity, they jump off the page. . . .A real page turner--Susan Shreve, author of A STUDENT OF LIVING THINGS and WARM SPRINGS

Bibi Gaston's hard-to-put down narrative mixes a Harvard Business School Case Study of American upper-class family dysfunction and tragedy, with entertainment history, with the most significant ingredient of all -- the healing of the scars on her own heart. The whole business is a miracle.--Tappan Wilder, Literary Executor

."...Uncovers a family history long obscured by secrets and lies...functions well as a window into a largely vanished social and cultural structure. Heartfelt and accomplished..."--Kirkus Reviews

...a fascinating memoir... Her writing is deft and sure. .... poetic, wry, humorous and, above all, spoken with the voice of truth and compassion. With "The Loveliest Woman in America," she gives readers the topography of the heart of a family, and in it we find pieces of ourselves."--Bangor Daily News

The discovery of her grandmother's diaries has taken Gaston on a journey not only of family and home but also of celebrity, politics, death, betrayal, and, eventually, understanding and hope.--Library Journal

."..a Dreiserian treatise on the corrosive use uses of money and class in America and how self-destructive patterns of behavior are often handed down in families...Bibi Gaston does a remarkable job piecing together this dramatic family history...."--Washington Post

Bibi Gaston s hard-to-put down narrative mixes a Harvard Business School Case Study of American upper-class family dysfunction and tragedy, with entertainment history, with the most significant ingredient of all -- the healing of the scars on her own heart. The whole business is a miracle.--Tappan Wilder, Literary Executor"

A granddaughter of beautiful 1920s actress Rosamond Pinchot draws on the actress's extensive personal journals to make sense of her grandmother's enigmatic persona and her sensational public suicide, in an account that offers insight into Pinchot's private life and the legacy she imparted to her family. 15,000 first printing. Reprint.