Ruth Gordon, an Open Book

by Ruth Gordon

Book Overview

Ruth Gordon: An Open Book This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385134800
• ISBN13: 9780385134804
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a rare personal look at a remarkable woman

Ruth Gordon was a noted playwright --she co-wrote "Adams Rib" which became a Katherine Hepburn Spencer Tracy movie--, and actress --she starred as Maud in "Harold and Maud" the only movie about a passionate affair between an 80-year old woman and a 20-year old man. Nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. You get the idea: she was a big deal and for a long time. She was smart too. She was a remarkable woman in her personal life and this book reveals what it was like subjectively to live her life. I don't mean here just the list of Husbands (including Garson Kanin), children, starring roles and travels (although it does contain some of that), but also those infinitely more real moments of one's life when one is alone and thinking one's own thoughts and experiencing one's own feelings, those evanescent but never forgotten moments of stopping and smelling the roses. I read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down.