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As new condition black boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Author Dedication; Epilogue; Index and Photo Credits. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus black-and-white photographic front and rear endpapers. " "My father didn't die - he escaped." He was a movie star, the king of nightclubs, the definitive recording artist of his time. He stamped his sense of style on the postwar generation. His death at 82 was mourned the world over by people who heard his music as the soundtrack of their lives, and who saw him as one of their own. Frank Sinatra seemed to have it all: genius, wealth, the love of beautiful women, glamorous friends from Las Vegas to the White House. Why then would Tina Sinatra, his younger daughter, refer to his death as an "escape"? What happened to make his life so difficult? In this startling and remarkably outspoken memoir, Tina Sinatra reveals to us an acutely restless, lonely and conflicted man - especially in affairs of the heart. Through his marriages and front-page romances and the melancholy gaps between, Frank Sinatra searched for a contentment that eluded him. He was drawn to gifted, talented women, but when they failed to provide the support and attention he needed, he became angry and frustrated. Tina Sinatra's view of her father was unique. The youngest of three children, she was born during his first flush of stardom, six months before he left her mother, Nancy, to pursue actress Ava Gardner. By the time Tina entered school, her father had married Ava, the great passion of his life. Tina liked Ava, found her "easy to be with, and.genuinely interested in us." A dozen years later, Tina would form a close friendship with her father's third wife, Mia Farrow, only three years Tina's senior. Through these years Frank Sinatra continued to remain devoted to his three children - and to their mother as well, for this is also the portrait of an extraordinary bond and a very special kind of family. Then Barbara Marx appeared on the scene. A former Vegas showgirl, she quickly severed her ties to husband Zeppo Marx (known as the "unfunny Marx Brother"). She soon became Sinatra's constant companion and eventually his fourth wife. Tina initially welcomed Barbara, and hoped the relationship would provide her father with the attention he needed. But it wasn't long before Tina came to fear that Barbara was trying to erase Sinatra's children from his life. She was forced to watch helplessly as her father, running from his own discontent, pursued a grueling performance schedule well into his seventies. She saw him risk his health and his own proud professional standards. Worst of all, she saw her father become joyless, beaten down, and depressed. Tina became alienated for a time - an estrangement that ended when Sinatra fell gravely ill. Over the last eighteen months of his life she became closer to him than ever, as she came fully to understand the complex emotinal package of the brightest, most enduring star of our age. My Father's Daughter, with its unflinching account of Sinatra's flaws and foibles, will shock many of his fans. At the same time, it is a deeply affectionate portrait written with love and warmth, a celebration of a daughter's fond esteem for her father and respect for his great legacy. The world remembers Frank SInatra as one of the giants of show business. In this book from someone inside the legend, Tina Sinatra remembers him as something more; a father, and a man." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
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