It's All In The Playing

By Shirley MacLaine

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this intimate and compelling memoir, lauded actress Shirley MacLaine casts herself in her most challenging role yet--as seeker of personal and metaphysical truth.

"It began in Peru ten years ago and ended in Peru ten years later. But the steps along the way were the real story."

In filming the miniseries Out on a Limb, Oscar-winning actress, social activist, and singular entertainer Shirley MacLaine was forced to recreate herself ten years earlier. To journey back from Malibu to London, from Sweden to the mysterious landscape of Peru . . . to the places, the perceptions, and profound emotions she experienced then. And to journey beyond, exploring new personal and cosmic dimensions, the choices of her lifetimes, who she was and who she would become.

At the heart of It's All in the Playing is a compelling challenge: We choose our own destinies, create our illusions. We have the power to design the world in which we live, and the strength to remake ourselves in the image of our dreams.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553272993
• ISBN13: 9780553272994
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Provokes thought...OUT ON A LIMB is better though.

Shirley MacLaine writes about cohesion in our world. What do you believe and how did you truly come to believe in that? She doesn't target religions but does inject insight into a notion some find upsetting: God is everywhere, God is in you, a power of change for your life is also in you. I enjoy her books and hope to see more. But my favorite is OUT ON A LIMB when Shirley shares her unsettling discoveries, discusses Jesus Christ and the missing 18-years from when he was 12-30---a time period deliberately remove from the original bible text. She challenges others to think and test what you believe in a real perspective. Terrific!