Lucky Me

My Life With, and Without, My Mom, Shirley MacLaine

Sachi Parker

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Gotham Books
13 January 2014

Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Lucky Me offers a vivid snapshot of the last half century from the Rat Pack world of the '60s through the free love consciousness raising '70s and the New Age self-absorption of the present.

Shirley Maclaine's only child reveals what it was like growing up with a mother who believed in reincarnation and extraterrestrials - but not necessarily parenthood.

Sachi Parker has led a colorful, idiosyncratic, globe-spanning life. Born in Hollywood but raised in Tokyo, she went to boarding school in Europe, worked as a waitress in Hawaii and France, was engaged to a sheep rancher in Australia, traveled the world as stewardess for Qantas Airways, and finally settled down in Malibu with her celebrated mother, Shirley MacLaine - that's when the fun really started.

Sachi's story unfolds like a convoluted mystery in a hall of mirrors, where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. Lucky Me offers a vivid snapshot of the last half century from the Rat Pack world of the '60s through the free love consciousness raising '70s and the New Age self-absorption of the present. It's a fascinating look at the surreal world of Hollywood and celebrity and, ultimately, a bittersweet love letter to a mother who is at once universally beloved and an enigmatic puzzle, a larger-than-life superstar who commands the spotlight and yet always seems just beyond reach.

'Extraordinarily touching and disturbing . . . Lucky Me is a palpably painful account of a lifetime spent trying to unravel mysteries - the actions of her parents, her own failures . . . . Ms. Parker is an excellent, evocative writer.' The Huffington Post

By: Sachi Parker
Imprint: Gotham Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 285g
ISBN: 9781592408627
ISBN 10: 1592408621
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 13 January 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sachi Parker is the only child of actress Shirley MacLaine and producer Steve Parker. An accomplished actress herself, Sachi has appeared in theater and films throughout the world. These appearances include Stick, directed by Burt Reynolds, Back to the Future, About Last Night, Peggy Sue Got Married, Riders to the Sea, and Scrooged, and TV shows such as Star Trek: the Next Generation and Equal Justice. Her theater work includes Ladies in Waiting, Pastorale, and The Lulu Plays, which she won a Daramalogue Best Actress award. Parker recently collaborated with co-author Frederick Stroppel (A Brooklyn State of Mind) on a one-woman show about her life, also titled Lucky Me.