Keeping Secrets

Somers, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 0446513954 / ISBN 13: 9780446513951

Published by Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1988

About this Item

The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the front fly. The inscription reads "To Russell with love and afection Auntie Suzanne 1-88. There is also a personal card from Suzanne Somers on her own personalised stationary which she has written on it " Dear Russell, My book supply is so limited (only 20 books) so could you please loan this copy to Lee, Phillip, and Mark if they are interested All my love Suzanne" laid in the book. The book is very good+ with slight edge wear and a bumped corner in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear.

Seller Inventory # 000568

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Keeping Secrets
• Publisher: Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446513954
• ISBN 13: 9780446513951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

From superstar Suzanne Somers comes the much-talked-about, painfully honest account of her life in an alcoholic family and the difficult road to recovery. Although a book about pain and struggle, Keeping Secrets is also an inspiring personal story in which Suzanne Somers shares her family's ultimate triumph over the disease. HC: Warner. (Nonfiction)

Reviews

In an autobiography that unfolds from the viewpoint of the adult child of an alcoholic, Somers reveals the dark underpinning of her acting career. She shows us the gradual disintegration of her family due to their keeping the guilty secret of the father's affliction. The facade of normal family life was initially supported by Somers's stoic, churchgoing mother, but it also became the burden of the children. Though Somers's childhood in San Francisco was made harrowing by the rampages of her alcohol-maddened father, there were interstices of family togetherness. The author had a stormy adolescence, including a short-lived first marriage that produced a son; her siblings were affected by their own alcoholism until one, then another, joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Today, writes Somers, "Everyone in my family is now recovering." Her courageous outspokenness will support other children of alcoholics. Photos.
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