On Sunset

A Memoir

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 9780385542685
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: October 2, 2018
Imprint: Doubleday Language: English
Author: Kathryn Harrison
ISBN: 9780385542685
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: October 2, 2018
Imprint: Doubleday
Language: English

Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents—until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, *On Sunset *seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.

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Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents—until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, *On Sunset *seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.

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