“Huston comes by her vivid life stories honestly. They are her birthright. And how fortunate for readers that she’s an easy and graceful storyteller. Read this memoir for the thrilling, improbable sentences that stop you cold. Most of all, read it for the sheer pleasure of listening to someone render a memory so tactile you can astrally project yourself there.” —Joumana Khatib, New York Times

“Anjelica Huston grew up in what sounds a fairy tale—magically beautiful, yet tinged with loss, sadness, and monsters.” —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe

“An elegy for a vanished world, A Story Lately Told becomes a seductive social history of the 1960s—and the story of Huston’s fractious separation from an indomitable father and grief for the loss of the mother who was the ballast of her life.” —Sheila Weller, The New York Times Book Review

“Impressively written in a style that is as graceful and natural as breathing and as observant as that by a ‘born writer.’… Huston comes of age surrounded by talent, pot, fame and photographers, and tells her tale with unexpected distinction.” —Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News (Editor’s Choice)

“Anjelica Huston has lived a big, colorful life—big and colorful enough to fill two volumes of an autobiography… Huston has a way with a descriptive phrase, and it’s on display in A Story Lately Told.” —Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today

“Huston’s lovely, novelistic writing carries the book… As a storyteller, she’s having more fun than a monkey in a lingerie drawer.” —Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly

“Evocative.” —Mary Pols, People

“An elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic.” —Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

“A Story Lately Told contains a plethora of compelling tales.” —Maggie Lange, New York Magazine

“Huston’s privileged childhood is described with great texture. The enormous estate in Ireland where her family lived is a rambling, magical place. The names that are dropped in this book don’t constitute name-dropping, but are simply the names that populated her childhood… Huston is a smart and subtle enough writer not to aim for a pop diagnosis, but instead, once again, goes for something truer, deeper and richer… A stirring memoir.” —Meg Wolitzer, NPR

“A Story Lately Told is peopled by names like Carson McCullers, John Steinbeck, Peter O’Toole, Marlon Brando, Monty Clift and the succession of gorgeous, interesting women who made up her father’s peripatetic life. Anjelica can really write. The prologue alone to her memoir is worthy.” —Liz Smith, Huffington Post

“Structured in short, colorful vignettes, A Story Lately Told shows off Ms. Huston’s fabulous memory, keen observations and lovely use of language.” —Carol O’Sullivan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Compelling, thoughtful, starry reading…What’s particularly enjoyable about her story is the rhapsodic way that she beautifully describes that bygone world.” —Alexander Larman, The Guardian

“Elegant and economical.” —Helen Brown, The Telegraph