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Wells, Gully.
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Wells, Dee
Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
London (England) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Provence (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Wells, Gully.
Wells, Dee
Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
London (England) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Provence (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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The
house
in
France
: a
memoir
/ Gully Wells.
by
Wells, Gully.
Knopf, c2011.
Call #:
921 W4543h
Subjects
Wells, Dee
Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
London (England) -- History -- 1951- -- Biography.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Provence (
France
) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780307269805
0307269809
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty
memoir
of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. 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 liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Here are Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, Jonathan Miller, Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Kennedy, and later in New York Mayor Lindsay and Mike Tyson . . . her mother as a television commentator earning a reputation for her outspoken style and progressive views . . . her stepfather, an icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophy, proving himself as prodigious a womanizer as he was a thinker. And throughout, there is La Migoua, the
house
in
France
, on a hill between Toulon and Marseilles, where her parents and their friends came together and where Gully herself learned some of the long-lasting lessons of a life well-lived. A dazzling portrait of a woman who 'caught the spirit of the sixties' and one of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century, drawn from the vivid memory of the child who adored them both."--Provided by publisher.
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Adult Nonfiction
921 W4543h
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