Tamatha Cain

Only Oona

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eugene O'Neill's only daughter. Café Society's only shining star. Charlie Chaplin's only true love. Abandoned by her father as a young child and left to her own devices as a teenager in Manhattan, Oona O'Neill made her own luck. Days spent at an Upper East Side all-girls school were followed by nights on the town with friends Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, and Truman Capote. She became an inspiration for Capote's character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's and boyfriend J.D. Salinger's Sally Hayes in Catcher in the Rye. Beyond her famous parents, wealthy friends, and stories in the society pages was a brilliant and savvy young woman determined to make something of herself on her own terms. From Bermuda to Florida, New Jersey to Manhattan, and Hollywood to Switzerland, experience the singular life and fascinating times of the enigmatic young woman who would become Lady Oona O'Neill Chaplin. "There have been so many books about my father Charlie Chaplin. My mother deserves her story to be told. And what better way than through this, Tamatha Cain's book!" --Jane Chaplin, filmmaker, Daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin "A lively, insightful rendering of a celebrity's coming-of-age in the Stork Club era." --Kirkus Reviews "Tamatha Cain is a born novelist and is having a lot of fun with her mythic subject, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, in Only Oona. Lucky reader!" --Aram Saroyan, American poet, novelist, and playwright

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orange Blossom Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9781949935615
• ISBN-10: 1949935612
• Artikelnr.: 66935215

Autorenporträt

Tamatha Cain writes about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. She believes that before giving up a thriving business to pursue writing full-time, her most compelling lines of prose were probably found in the pages-long love notes she wrote to bewildered boys back in middle school. Her writing has appeared in The Experience Art and Literary Magazine, The Florida Writer, American Cake Decorating, and others. She won the 2020 Royal Palm Literary Award for Unpublished Literary Mystery and The Experience Poetry Competition. She writes reviews for Southern Literary Review and serves as a judge in the RPLA Awards. She is a member of WFWA and FWA. She did eventually hone the love notes enough to impress her high school sweetheart, and now they have three grown kids.