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The rainbow comes and goes : a mother and son on life, love, and loss Cover Image Book Book

The rainbow comes and goes : a mother and son on life, love, and loss / Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt.

Cooper, Anderson, (author.). Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019 (author.).

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Anderson Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before, a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other.

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  • ISBN: 9780062454942
  • ISBN: 0062454943
  • ISBN: 9780062454966
  • ISBN: 006245496X
  • ISBN: 9780062466730
  • ISBN: 0062466739
  • Physical Description: 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 070.92 C776 2016 (Text) 33126020751586 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Erlanger Branch 070.92 C776 2016 (Text) 33126020751545 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 May #1

    Weeks before her 91st birthday, Vanderbilt (Obsession) experiences her first major illness. While she's hospitalized, her son Cooper (Dispatches from the Edge) is overseas. When Cooper returns home, he resolves to leave nothing unsaid between them. The result of that promise is this epistolary memoir, a yearlong conversation between the author and his mother via email. There's the infamous custody case separating Vanderbilt from her mother at age ten, her intimate relationships, her career in fashion and the arts, the loss of husband Wyatt Cooper, Anderson's father, and the suicide of her son, Anderson's older brother Carter. With five autobiographies under her belt, one wonders what Vanderbilt has left unsaid, but the strength of this book is that she's saying it for the first time to her son. Cooper draws her out, learning not just what happened to her, but how she felt—and this is his story, too. He describes losing his father and brother, and his perspective on the day he came out to her. VERDICT Memoir readers (and Hollywood fans) will appreciate this book, especially those interested in relationships between mothers and sons. A perfect Mother's Day read.—Terry Bosky, Madison, WI

    [Page 69]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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