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The object parade / Dinah Lenney.

by Lenney, Dinah.

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Berkeley : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2014.

Actresses -- United States -- Biography.

Personal belongings -- Miscellanea.

9781619023000 (hardback) :

1619023008 (hardback)

xiv, 200 pages ; 24 cm

I. Carpet Bag -- This Old Watch -- Charlie's Piano -- Metronome -- Dinah's Room -- The General's Table -- Spoon -- Mole -- Piano, Too -- Gertude's Scarf -- II. -- Chandelier -- Chicken Stew -- Nests -- Collar -- Charm -- Flight Jacket -- Green Earrings -- Little Black Dress -- Little Black Dress, Two -- Ferris Wheel -- Stick Kite -- III. -- Scoop -- Eggs -- Two Guitars -- Script -- Christmas Tree -- Breakfront -- Spice Chest -- Jeans and Clogs -- Poster -- Letter to Dad -- Instructions.

"This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing - real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time. "--

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