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Harrison, Kathryn.
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Harrison, Kathryn -- Childhood and youth.
Harrison, Kathryn -- Family.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
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On Sunset : a memoir...
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818.5403 H319o
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Harrison, Kathryn.
Harrison, Kathryn -- Childhood and youth.
Harrison, Kathryn -- Family.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
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On Sunset : a memoir / by
Kathryn
Harrison
.
by
Harrison
,
Kathryn
.
Doubleday, 2018.
Call #:
818.5403 H319o
Subjects
Harrison
,
Kathryn
--
Childhood
and
youth
.
Harrison
,
Kathryn
--
Family.
Novelists, American
--
20th century
--
Family relationships.
ISBN:
9780385542678 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"
Kathryn
Harrison
always understood that her family was beyond eccentric
--
they'd breached the bounds of the unconventional. She was largely raised by her grandparents in an outsized Tudor confection of a house on the periphery of Bel Air, which she thought of as "Sunset," her kingdom of the imagination, inhabited by the past and its numberless artifacts. True wandering Jews, her grandparents had arrived in Los Angeles in the forties after dramatic, globetrotting lives. Harry Jacobs had been a fur trapper in Alaska, a soldier in the trenches of the Great War, a traveling salesman in a Model T. Margaret Sassoon had lived a privileged life as a member of a Jewish merchant family in Shanghai, turning down offers of marriage from Russian princes exiled by the Revolution.
Kathryn
Harrison
grew up in an almost mythical realm of their letters and artifacts and stories
--
until declining finances forced to sell the house on Sunset in 1971, and night fell fast. On Sunset seeks to recover that
childhood
, that place, those lives
--
and does so with piercing poignancy."--From publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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