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She actually is one of the very most recognizable women of your time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is a lot more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her life today, Jane Fonda reveals intimate details and universal truths that she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them just a little differently.”
Fonda divides her “life so far” into three “acts,” writing about her childhood, first films, and marriage to Roger Vadim in Act One. At once a picture emerges: a child born to the acting legend Henry Fonda and the glamorous society princess Frances Seymour. But these early years are also marked by profound sadness: her mother’s mental illness and suicide when Jane is twelve yrs . old, her father’s emotional distance, and her personal battle to find her way on the globe as a young woman.
By her second act, Fonda lays the building blocks on her behalf activism, even as her career takes flight. She highlights her battle to live consciously and authentically while remaining in the general public eye as she recounts her marriages to Tom Hayden and Ted Turner, and examines her controversial and defining involvement with the Vietnam War. As her film career grows, Fonda learns to include her roles into a larger vision of what counts most in her life–and along the way she wins two Academy Awards, for Klute and for Coming Home.
In Fonda’s third act, she is ready to do the work of the lifetime–to get started living consciously in a way that might inspire others who can learn from her experiences. Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, Jane Fonda’s My Life So Far is filled with universal insights into the personal struggles of women living full and engaged lives.
From the Hardcover edition.
