The House in France: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307269809 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A lesson in understanding and adoration With exquisitely beautiful and frank detail, author Gully Wells shares in her memoir The House of France the memories she has of her mother Dee Wells and her step-father Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer as she grew up in London, Paris and in their summer home situated between Toulon and Marseille all amongst the royal, social and political elite.Wells con. sponkerina said Brilliant and hilarious. In the current flood of memoirs hitting the market, The House in France stands alone as a witty, wry portrait of an unusually clever and entertaining family. The book spans the life of Gully Wells from her childhood in the fifties through her coming of age in the sixties and her adulthood in contemporary New York City. She takes us on a breathless tour o. Shallow name-dropping I enjoy this kind of memoir and was looking forward to reading The House in France. What a disappointment! It was a struggle plodding on to the end, and the only reason I did was that based on the other, glowing, reviews, I thought at some point the book might get better. Nope, never did. Why it is of interest to anyone to read about these shallow, dysfu
I can't think when I've enjoyed a memoir so much.'' --Christopher Buckley . ''Gully's writing is like her marvelous figure--lean, provocative, and built for humor.'' --Rupert Everett''This is a superbly entertaining memoir full of delicious anecdote, witty portraiture, and unexpected pathos. I have been dining out for weeks on stories stolen from this volume.'' --Zoe Heller, author of What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal''Travel, celebrity, infidelity--and a generous dose of Provence. And beautifully written. Charming and fascinating.'' -- Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence ''Gorgeous, smart--indeed, brilliant--utterly captivating
She is a features editor at Condé Nast Traveler magazine. Gully Wells was born in Paris, brought up in London, educated at Oxford, and moved to New York in 1979. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
F. We meet Wells’s adventurous mother, a television commentator earning a reputation for her outspoken style and progressive views, and her stepfather, an icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophy, proving himself as prodigious a womanizer as he is a thinker. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher—and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything.Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London’s lively, liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Woven throughout is La Migoua, the old farmhouse in France, where evenings were spent cooking bouillabaisse with fish bought that morning in the market in Band