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02817aam a22004338a 4500 001 93C1EA169E2911E0A5CADBC86AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 110125s2011 nyu 000 0ceng 010 $a 2011003424 020 $a 0307269809 020 $a 9780307269805 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a e-uk--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a DA684.2 $b .W45 2011 082 00 $a 920.0421 $2 22 084 $a BIO007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Wells, Gully. 245 1 $a The house in France : $b a memoir / $c Gully Wells. 260 $a New York : $b Knopf, $c 2011. 300 $a 907 p. 520 $a "Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London's liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Here are Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, Jonathan Miller, Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Kennedy, and later in New York Mayor Lindsay and Mike Tyson . . . her mother as a television commentator earning a reputation for her outspoken style and progressive views . . . her stepfather, an icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophy, proving himself as prodigious a womanizer as he was a thinker. And throughout, there is La Migoua, the house in France, on a hill between Toulon and Marseilles, where her parents and their friends came together and where Gully herself learned some of the long-lasting lessons of a life well-lived. A dazzling portrait of a woman who 'caught the spirit of the sixties' and one of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century, drawn from the vivid memory of the child who adored them both."-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a London (England) $x History $y 1951- $v Biography. 600 10 $a Wells, Dee. 600 10 $a Ayer, A. J. $q (Alfred Jules), $d 1910-1989. 650 0 $a Journalists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Philosophers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Intellectuals $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Celebrities $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a London (England) $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Provence (France) $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204042854.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110025041.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926012502.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20111119012231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=93C1EA169E2911E0A5CADBC86AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search