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Barbara de Keller has enjoyed a rich life of culture and travel. She was born into a well-connected American family in North Carolina, and from 1928 until the outbreak of the Second World War she was brought up in the mobile and leisured society of America and Europe - Rome and Venice with her sister, who had married into the di Robilant family. Her Vassar education came to an end when war temporarily prevented her return to America. In \fenice (where she lived in Giordano Bruno's old room in the Palazzo Mocenigo) her friendships with Venetians, royals and refugees continued. Elsewhere the friendships were varied, sometimes dramatic.Her marriage brought her back to America, to Washington, where her husband Guy joined the Swiss diplomatic service and their children, Bonnie and Nicki, were born. Since then, they have served in Berne, Warsaw, Cairo, Paris, Accra and Dublin.Barbara de Keller's story is vivid and nostalgic, and sometimes tragic. It is told with wit and charm, and is alive with asides and anecdotes of great eccentrics and exotic characters, from Roald Dahl to Christabel, Lady Ampthill and Ernest Hemingway. Who Knom Tomnwrow? is a colourful portrait of a family, of Americ

Author

Barbara De Keller

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780948149856