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Summary: Kendall was and is my idol!
Review: I got this book when I was about 12 years old and I have read it until it was completely in tatters. Kendall was such an inspiration to me while I was growing up... I wish I had had the wherewithal to step outside the system as she did. She has such a great eye for hilarious and telling little moments and her journal is so lively, funny, and charged... how many of us have the ability to even know what our own (true) interests and passions ARE, let alone are able to pursue them as guilessly and energetically as Kendall does? I have often wondered where she is now and searched for her name on the internet, but it doesn't come up. If anyone knows what she is doing today please let me know! And if anyone is still wondering whether or not they should buy this book, take it from me, DO. It could change your life.
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Summary: A must read for every intelligent & artistic teen.
Review: I just finished this book ... warm, witty, dry, just all round super. I'm enormously curious about Kendall; has she written anything else, what's she up to now?Andy Levy-Stevenson
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Summary: An unintentional primer for the self-absorbed teen
Review: I was hooked on this book from the first page. I heard Kendall interviewed by Carol Hemingway (radio) and was captivated by this young woman's insight, humor, intelligence ... and personality. She was blessed with an exceptional childhood, given her incredible parents .. but nevertheless, is such an individual .. and has enormous courage. I had the privledge of meeting her, and she is more delightful than I could have ever imagined .. she's also a good actress (saw her in one of her mother's plays). Wish she would write more books.
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Summary: Amazing insight
Review: I was hooked on this book from the first page. I heard Kendall interviewed by Carol Hemingway (radio) and was captivated by this young woman's insight, humor, intelligence ... and personality. She was blessed with an exceptional childhood, given her incredible parents .. but nevertheless, is such an individual .. and has enormous courage. I had the privledge of meeting her, and she is more delightful than I could have ever imagined .. she's also a good actress (saw her in one of her mother's plays). Wish she would write more books.
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Summary: An unintentional primer for the self-absorbed teen
Review: Ms. Hailey's very, very early autobiography is nothing terribly special. She's bright, she loves old movies passionately(this was quite a bit more iconoclastic back when she was living it, in the 80s, than it is now in the era of TCM-though it was certainly never as unusual as she'd have her readers believe)-enough to fantasize about what good friends she'd have been with Carole Lombard, if only they'd lived at the same time...yikes. Basically, this soul-searching, well-heeled Valley girl disguises her "Ghost World" disaffection with her peers as something of a definable disability for a rare, tender intellectual such as herself. Truly, it inadvertantly comes off as a slightly lazy and very spoiled Daddy's girl finding yet another way to wrap her famous, well-off and successful parents around her little finger and get out of boring old assignments, getting up early, doing reading and writing she doesn't *want* to do, etc. Plenty of ruminations and observations and fantasies of herself as the Katharine Hepburn character in "Holiday"...yikes. This would NEVER have been published but for the influence of her parents, as there's nothing here that's new if you're over 19. At the time of its original publication, the author hit the circuit hard, doing all kinds of press where her incredible, Hepburnesque mannered way of speaking(has to be heard to be believed)was more interesting than anything she had to say...telling that she's done nothing in the public eye since. What'd *really* be interesting would be an "update" of how her life has evolved(hopefully) beyond the end of her nose in the last 20 years.
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Summary: How Can This Be Out of Print?!
Review: What a wonderful book this is, and how hard to find! I treasure my paperback copy, but wish that it were easier to give this book as a gift. Certainly everyone who has read it has fallen for Kendall and wonders whatever happened to this bright, funny, fascinating young woman. I understand that her father, playwright Oliver Hailey, died in 1993. Her sister, Brooke Hailey, is an actress and screenwriter who appeared in the film version of A Woman of Independent Means. Wherever you are, Kendall, I hope that you are still devouring books with gusto and continuing to write about them. Your fans do miss you.
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