Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Memory Of All That : George Gershwin, Kay Swift, And My Family's Legacy Of Infidelities
by Katharine Weber

What started out to be a promising book deteriorated after ninety-five pages and I stopped reading. The author spent an inordinate amount of time writing about her father who was a louse in being both a husband and a parent. It went on and on and became old soon enough. Katharine Weber's grandmother (Kay Swift) was supposed to have had a ten-year affair with George Gershwin while she was married to James Paul Warburg and that might have been interesting if the chapter about Weber's father had been abbreviated. There's also endless name-dropping. Ho hum.
Not recommended.

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