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On Sunset: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison**"Stunning... This is Kathryn Harrison in top form." Augusten BurroughsIn the tradition of *The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family,* a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.**Kathryn Harrison always understood that her family was beyond eccentric they'd breached the bounds of the unconventional. She was largely raised by her grandparents in an outsized Tudor confection of a house on the periphery of Bel Air, which she thought of as "Sunset," her kingdom of the imagination, inhabited by the past and its numberless artifacts. True wandering Jews, her grandparents had arrived in Los Angeles in the forties after dramatic, globetrotting lives. Harry Jacobs had been a fur trapper in Alaska, a soldier in the trenches of the Great War, a traveling salesman in a Model T. Margaret Sassoon had lived a privileged life as a member of a Jewish merchant family in Shanghai, turning down offers of marriage from Russian princes exiled by the Revolution. Kathr

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Author

Kathryn Harrison

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385542685

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography