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Author:

MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- author.

Title:

Above the line : my Wild oats adventure / Shirley MacLaine.

Publisher:

Atria Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

MacLaine, Shirley,--1934-
Wild oats (Motion picture)
Entertainers--United States--Biography.
Spiritualists--United States--Biography.

Summary:

A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine{u2019}s remarkable experiences filmingWild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. Her agent told her not to get on the plane. The male leads weren{u2019}t even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been re-written countless times. And yet something aboutWild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the film{u2019}s location shoot in the far-off Canary Islands{u2014}and straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life. The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of history{u2019}s most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spain{u2019}s Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the island{u2019}s cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend? The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirley{u2019}s past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative memoir essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be human{u2014}both where we came from and where we are going.

ISBN:

1501136410
9781501136412

LCCN:

2015040061

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