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<p><i>Janet, My Mother, and Me</i> is a charming, captivating memoir about a boy growing up in household of two extraordinary women. William Murray was devoted to his mother, Natalia Danesi Murray, and to his mother's longtime lover, writer Janet Flanner. Even as a teenager, he accepted their unconventional relationship. His portrait of the two most important people in his life is unforgettable.</p> <p>Janet Flanner was already celebrated as the author of a new style of personal journalism for her "Letter from Paris: in <i>The New Yorker</i> when she met the Italian-born Natalia Murray on Fire Island, New York, in 1940. Their encounter, writes William Murray, was a "<i>coup de foudre</i>, a thunderbolt that instantly sent them rushing into each other's arms and forever altered their lives, as well as mine."</p> <p>Murray was already growing up in two cultures on different continents, in New York and Rome, when his mother's life changed so dramatically. He quickly accepted Flanner and the unusual household in which he found himself. (Natalia's mother, Mammina Ester, also lived with them in New York.) His memories of the women and of his own boyhood and adolescence are touching and o

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Author

Murray, William, 1926-2005

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684809663

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.47 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13