A Story Lately Told

Huston writes of her charmed upbringing in Ireland, her adolescent years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and embryonic actor in New York, all written with an exuberant love of language and detail. Huston was upon an Irish estate where her father brought his assortment of exceptional acquaintances, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O'Toole and Marlon Brando, in between movies. She was taught by tutors and nuns and fearless on a horse. Anjelica and her brother paid their father a visit every morning as he ate his breakfast in bed. When she saw him the night before, why didn't she say hello? he would ask the next morning.