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Coast To Coast

Nora Johnson Was A Young Child When Her Parents' Marriage Collapsed. Her Father, Nunnally Johnson, The Writer, Producer, Or Director Of Many Acclaimed Movies, Such As The Grapes Of Wrath And The Dirty Dozen , Remained In California, Where He Would Continue To Be A Major Hollywood Presence For More Than Three Decades. Nora's Mother, Marion, A Beautiful But Unsettled Woman, Took Her To New York To Start A New Life -- One Surrounded By Her Mother's Lovers And Eccentric Literary Friends Instead Of Movie Stars And Studio Heads. Coast To Coast Is Nora's Account Of A Childhood Spent Shuttling Between Manhattan And Hollywood. What Emerges Is A Marvelous Portrait Of American Life In The 1940's And 1950's -- From The Movie Lots Of California To The Cocktail Parties Of The Upper East Side -- And Also A Touching Story Of A Shrewd, Observant Girl Who Would Grow Up Far Too Fast. Nora Shares The Colorful Details Of A Childhood Spent In Privilege, But Also Captures The Painful Loneliness Of Changing Schools, Four-day Train Trips From One Coast To The Other, And Never Being Quite Sure Of Where She Belonged. She Also Brings To Life Her Droll, Charming, Talented Father -- A Thurberesque Character In Hollywood -- And Her Beautiful And Erratic Mother, A Woman Who Fled The Los Angeles Movie Colony Life But Was Unable To Forget The Husband Who Took Her There. Coast To Coast Is A Wonderfully Written Portrait Of A Fascinating Era And A Child Who Came Of Age In It, Who Had Everything She Wanted -- Except A Place To Call Home.

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