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Wendy Lawless
Wendy Lawless has published essays on motherhood, family and Hollywood in Redbook, Powells.com and the Los Angeles press. A stage and television actress, she appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and off-Broadway in the Obie Award-winning play All in the Timing. She lives in California... show more
Wendy Lawless has published essays on motherhood, family and Hollywood in Redbook, Powells.com and the Los Angeles press. A stage and television actress, she appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and off-Broadway in the Obie Award-winning play All in the Timing. She lives in California with her screenwriter husband and their two children. Follow her on Twitter.com/wendylawless2 and see pictures, video and links for Chanel Bonfire at www.chanelbonfire.blogspot.com.BOOK GROUPS!If your book group plans to read Chanel Bonfire I would be happy to do a Skype Q & A with you. If you're having coffee or tea on your end, I'll have coffee or tea on mine. Cocktails? Cocktails! Contact me at chanelbonfire@gmail.com.
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Twitchy Witchy Girl
Twitchy Witchy Girl rated it 10 years ago
Chanel Bonfire was an amazing read. I’ve always been infatuated with reading true stories about people growing up with a narcissistic parent(s) so I knew I needed to read this memoir. I devoured this book in a matter of hours—I couldn’t put it down. I loved how in their own right both Wendy and Robi...
Garden-of-Stars
Garden-of-Stars rated it 10 years ago
I can easily see "Chanel Bonfire" being made into a book. It's honest, emotional, dark, with a few moments of humour sprinkles here and there. And it's beautiful.Wendy Lawless captures her own disjointed and emotional childhood by focusing on her mother's impact on herself and her sister Robin. It's...
Lagniappe Literature
Lagniappe Literature rated it 11 years ago
Great read! Honest and painful memoir, with a few laughs sprinkled in for good measure. Wendy Lawless and her sister, Robin, grew up with an unstable Grace Kelly-ish mother who drank and drank and then, unfortunately for all involved, drank some more. Their beautiful and conniving mother also collec...
Parnassus Reads
Parnassus Reads rated it 12 years ago
In a sentence, this book is shallow and vapid and the prose is insipid and full of glib cliches (at one point, she compares working as a stage hand changing sets to clocking in on a slave ship and rowing for twelve hours. Really?). If you're a fan of Gossip Girl (books or show), then this is the adu...
Tweezle Reads
Tweezle Reads rated it 12 years ago
Although a biography, this amazing story has the readability of a novel. It flows well and the story told is totally captivating. Told from Wendy's (Georganne's daughter) point of view, one can only gasp at the horrors being told, and told from a seemingly detached point of view that some would faul...
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