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Title: The House in France
Subtitle: A Memoir
Author: Gully Wells
Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughters wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfatherDee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopherand the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything.
Gully Wells takes us into the heart of Londons 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 stepfatheran icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophyproving 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.
This is a dazzling portrait of a woman who caught the spirit of the sixties and one of the most important intellectual figures of the 20th century, drawn from the vivid memory of the child who adored them both.
Critic Reviews:
Travel, celebrity, infidelityand a generous dose of Provence. Charming and fascinating.Peter Mayle, New York Times bestselling author
