You Can Get There from Here

by Shirley MacLaine

Book Overview

Immensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity, sensitivity, warmth, and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience, Shirley MacLaine beings a very special quality of mind and heart to her acting, to her writing, to her travels. You Can Get There From Here is a remarkable memoir--the exciting and revealing journey of a woman who rediscovers the world an herself.Shirley MacLaine's first taste of professional disaster.The flowering of her social and political consciousness.The China trip that will change her life.From an ill-fated television series in the early 1970's that goes against everything she believes in...to her impassioned efforts on behalf of a major presidential candidate...to her emergence as an important voice in the international women's movement...to her life-affirming odyssey to the People's Republic of China--this is the unforgettable story of Shirley MacLaine's road from a crisis of self-doubt to a joyous new stage in her life.A fascinating book...She is an articulate sophisticated woman of the world. -- The New York Times Intensely personal...Written in candid, natural style...Spiced with well-told anecdotes and revealing vignettes...All can enjoy the journey's of Shirley MacLaine. -- Best Sellers

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393074897
• ISBN13: 9780393074895
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

You can get there from here

as usual great book on her life's adventures. I find after awhile I reread her books, so hold on to them. recommend

Personal, uplifting adventure

Well written, great true story. Wonderful independent adventures and sense of possibility. Enjoyed it very much!!