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Author Bernstein, Jamie, 1952- author.

Title Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein / Jamie Bernstein.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  780.92 BERNSTEIN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BERNSTEIN    DUE 04-30-24 +1 HOLD
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. BERNSTEIN, J.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B BER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO BERNSTEIN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY BERNSTEIN, JAMIE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B BERNSTEIN JAMIE B    In Transit
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  B BERNSTEIN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B BERNSTEIN LEONARD    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BERNSTEIN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index of names.
Contents The Osborne -- The Vineyard and Redding -- Park Avenue and Fairfield -- The first shadows -- The Beatles portal -- Summer games -- A little teen in '60s New York -- School, family, and the world -- Stone teen -- One toe out of the nest -- Shifting grounds -- Not really grownup -- Here come the terrors -- Crawling from the wreckage -- The east-west shuffle -- Quiet-ish -- Redding, Wecord, and what was in between -- Forward motion -- An arrival -- A departure -- Life goes on -- A new millennium -- The Venezuela connection -- Lately.
Summary "In a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir, the eldest daughter of revered composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth"--Jacket.
"In a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir, the eldest daughter of revered composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth. The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard Bernstein was an enormous celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, as well as the most protean musician in twentieth century America. But to his eldest daughter, Jamie, he was above all the man in the scratchy brown bathrobe who smelled of cigarettes; the jokester and compulsive teacher who enthused about Beethoven and the Beatles; the insomniac whose composing breaks at four a.m. involved spooning baby food out of the jar. He taught his daughter to love the world in all its beauty and complexity. In public and private, Lenny was larger than life. In Famous Father Girl, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her childhood and invites us into her family's private world. A fantastic set of characters populates the Bernsteins' lives, including the Kennedys, Mike Nichols, John Lennon, Richard Avedon, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, and Betty (Lauren) Bacall. An intoxicating tale, Famous Father Girl is an intimate meditation on a complex and sometimes troubled man, the family he raised, and the music he composed that became the soundtrack to their entwined lives. Deeply moving and often hilarious, Bernstein's beautifully written memoir is a great American story about one of the greatest Americans of the modern age."--Dust jacket.
Subject Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Biography.
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Family.
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. (OCoLC)fst00002135
Children of celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Conductors (Music) -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.
Children of celebrities. (OCoLC)fst00855327
Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
Conductors (Music) (OCoLC)fst00874600
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Nonfiction.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9780062641359 (hardcover)
0062641352 (hardcover)
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