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Simon & Schuster, hardcover with dustjacket, 1994, 320 p
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Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir – Mary Ellin Barrett
R125.00
- The memoir is written by Mary Ellin Barrett, the oldest daughter of the famed songwriter Irving Berlin.
- It covers her experience of growing up with the legendary composer of American classics such as “White Christmas” and “God Bless America”.
- Barrett recounts her parents’ high-profile and controversial marriage—a Jewish composer and a wealthy Irish-American Catholic socialite.
- The book provides a glimpse into a world of privilege and fame in the 1930s and 1940s but also reveals the personal struggles within the family, including the tragic death of an infant son and her father’s bouts of depression.
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