One More Time: A Memoir [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Burnett, Carol

Published by Random House, New York, 1986

About this Item

Fine condition white boards with a red cloth spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and additional black-and-white photographs interspersed throughout the volume. The blank first free front endpaper contains a neatly scripted vintage Christmas 1986 gift inscription. All other pages are in fine condition and the spine/binding is tight and square (see photographs). "Not long ago, Carol Burnett bought a typewriter, place it on her work table, and began a letter to her three daughters. What she wanted to tell them was what her own childhood had been like. What she didn't want was for her children to grown up knowing as little about their mother's childhood as she had known about the early lives of her own parents. Day by day Carol's letter grew, as long forgetten memoires came flooding back - memories of a childhood sometimes so painful, for all the love and humor she managed to find within it, that she had barely been able to confront its joys and sorrows - until she sat down to write her letter. That letter became this book. Carol Burnett was born in San Anotonio, Texas, and grew up in Hollywood. But her Hollywood was not the Hollywood of America's dreams. Carol Burnett's Hollywood was an old apartment house in a Depression-scarred neighborhood where she lived in a single cluttered room with her grandmother, a hypo-chondriacal Christian Scientist with a buried past. The room featured an immovable Murphy bed, an ill-equipped kitchen and a bathroom whose shower rod doubled as the closet. Her parents were divorced and both were alcoholics. Her mother lived in another single room down the hall. Her father lived somewhere else. The family was on relief. That was reality from the outside. But Carol Burnett never experienced it that way. Her broken family was her family, the source of security, courage and love: her beautiful, well-meaning, naively ambitions mother; her gentle, ineffectual father; her manipulative, always loving grandmother; and her sister, Chrissy, raised largely by Carol, who remains among Carol's closest friends. One More Time is the candid story of how Carol Burnett grew up in this family, how it shaped her, and of the nearly miraculous circumstances that helped her talent flourish, propelling her from these unpromising beginnings to the threshold of fame. Readers will encounter this story just as vividly as Carol Burnett lived it, with the freshness and amazement of direct experience. Here is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking childhood and coming of age: from a sadly hopeful mother hooked on Hollywood fantasy to the first signs of Carol's comic gift; from the happy weekends that Carol spent with her father to her last tragic meeting with him in a public sanatorium; from the show-off fun of her first ear-shattering Tarzan yell to the rush of events that brought her to New York, and would soon bring her to stardom. One More Time is a rich, touching, powerful memoir, an unforgettable portrait of a determined and miraculous spirit who insisted on life and joy - and found it, wherever she happened to be." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 006014

Bibliographic Details

Title: One More Time: A Memoir [FIRST EDITION, ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition