My Father's Daughter : A Memoir

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 2000. First Printing of First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 313 pages indexed. Photographic dust jacket's 26.00 price is unclipped. Charcoal boards, black cloth spine, gilt lettering. Two Parts and Eleven Chapters: Part One (A Restless Spirit) begins with Chapter One Two Loves, The Void He Left Behind, Turmoil and Transition, Generation Gap, My Father My Friend and The Climber. Part Two (From Hell to Eternity) begins with Chapter 7 Not A Pretty Picture, Without A Trace, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, End of an Era and closes with Chapter 11 With His Wife at His Side. Very attractive book with photographic endpapers and two large photographic sections. Filled with historic photos of Frank Sinatra and family. Includes a police mug shot during Sinatra's early days prior to his singing career. He was a movie star, king of the nightclubs, the definitive recording artist of his time. His death at 82 was mourned the world over by people who heard hismusic as the sountrack of their lives, and who saw him as one of their own. He seemed to have it all: genius, wealth, the love of beautiful women and glamorous friends from Las Vegas to the White House. Why then would Tina Sinatra, his younger daughter refer to his death as an escape? In this startling and remarkably outspoken memoir, Tina Sinatra reveals to us an acutely restless, lonely and conflicted man expecially in affairs of the heart. A deeply and affectionate portrait written with love and warmth. Through his marriages and front-page romances and the melancholy gaps between, Frank Sinatra searched for a contentment that eluded him. Tina's view of her father was unique. The youngest of three children, she was born during his first flush of stardom, six months before he left her mother Nancy, to pursue actress Ava Gardner. My Father's Daughter, with its unflinching account of Sinatra's flaws and foibles, will shock many of his fans but it is a celebration of a daughter's fond esteem for her father and respect for his great legacy.