Reuters has an article discussing the book called Notes on a Life , written by Eleanor Coppola, the wife of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
Reuters describes the book as: an intimate portrait of a family that includes her daughter, writer/director Sofia Coppola. Reuters also has an interview with Mrs. Coppola.
In this new work we travel back and forth with her from the swirling center of the film world to the intimate heart of her family. She offers a fascinating look at the vision that drives her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, and describes her daughter Sofias rise to fame with the film Lost in Translation . Even as she visits faraway movie sets and attends parties, she is pulled back to pursue her own art, but is always focused on keeping her family safe. The death of their son Gio in a boating accident in 1986 and her struggle to cope with her grief and anger leads to a moving exploration of her deepest feelings as a woman and a mother, the product description states.
When asked by Reuters what her impetus was for writing this book, Mrs. Coppola said: "My mother wrote her thoughts on index cards for years. She filled shoeboxes with thousands of cards. I encouraged her to edit them. She always said she wasn't ready. Then the time came when she was no longer able -- she's 99. I realized my nearly 30 years of notebooks were piling up."
Nan A. Talese is the publisher. Click here to read the interview.
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