Another City: A Sequel to Albany Park : A Memoir

by Patrice Chaplin

Book Overview

Copyright 1987; 361 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; ISBN: 0871132567. ISBN/EAN: 9780871132567. Inventory No: 001539. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871132567
• ISBN13: 9780871132567
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.

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This is a book in which the author bares her unbelievably selfish soul, apparently without a trace of self-consciousness.After obsessively following a Spanish lover around for years, she fails to make the ultimate commitment of marriage, since it becomes obvious that this will involve a lot of floor -scrubbing and drudgery, and much less sex.She marries (Michael Chaplin, son of Charlie) and gives birth to two children in quick succession, but cannot give up the idea of the Spanish lover. She spends the next twenty years dashing across to Spain, abandoning husband and subsequent lovers to renew the Spanish dream. Sometimes the unfortunate two children are dragged with her. She fights against raging alcoholism successfully, but cannot resolve her passion.Eventually, Spanish lover finds a suitable bride ("I never knew what you were going to do next" he tells the author). She is consumed by jealousy, and does her best to steal her love back, with such conspicuous success that his new wife tries to poison her. But he never actually leaves the new wife, and eventually old age diminishes his charms and kills the passsion that nothing else could kill. The author falls for a sado-masochistic Hollywood mogul who is shot dead and leaves her a fortune.One can't like the author, but one is spell-bound by her zest for life and her greed for sensations, evoked with startling clarity, like she is in the next room.This is every seventies dropout you ever knew, plus some and succeesful too, in the end.Gripping and addictive reading, I have now ordered the two novels she wrote based on Spanish lover and Hollywood mogul respectively. Both are out of print, but the former "Siesta", has apparently been made into a film.