Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
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Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir is a memoir
written by Lorna Luft
recounting her mother Judy Garland
's life, Luft's life with mother and dealing with life after her mother's passing. Published in 1998 by Simon & Schuster Inc, the book was a success and later translated into an ABC television miniseries totaling 170 minutes (a little under 3 hours) and later released as a DVD.
Lorna Luft notes on her mother's performance in another interview: "There's one song that truly belongs only to my mother..." Garland became the song she sang and sadly enough was unable to see herself climbing the parable of the rainbow. She had often said that she couldn't believe in the "rainbow" but friends and family recapped later that she was too busy living it.
Also from another interview, Lorna says warmly: "I think what my mother loved most of all was that people wanted to hear her sing... and they always will."
Memoir
A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...
written by Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and Sid Luft, and the half-sister of singer and actress Liza Minnelli.-Biography:...
recounting her mother Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
's life, Luft's life with mother and dealing with life after her mother's passing. Published in 1998 by Simon & Schuster Inc, the book was a success and later translated into an ABC television miniseries totaling 170 minutes (a little under 3 hours) and later released as a DVD.
Lorna Luft notes on her mother's performance in another interview: "There's one song that truly belongs only to my mother..." Garland became the song she sang and sadly enough was unable to see herself climbing the parable of the rainbow. She had often said that she couldn't believe in the "rainbow" but friends and family recapped later that she was too busy living it.
Also from another interview, Lorna says warmly: "I think what my mother loved most of all was that people wanted to hear her sing... and they always will."