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My Mother's Keeper Hardcover – January 1, 1985
- Print length347 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1985
- ISBN-10068804798X
- ISBN-13978-0688047986
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- Publisher : William Morrow & Co; First Edition (January 1, 1985)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 347 pages
- ISBN-10 : 068804798X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0688047986
- Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #282,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,489 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
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The author claims the book was meant to communicate her genuine love for her mother but her mother was too self-absorbed to listen when she talked to her.
No doubt Bette Davis wasn't easy to live with but I don't think she deserved this betrayal by her own daughter, a person that lived well, married well and had every advantage lavished on her.
You can blame your parents until your twenty-one. After that...it's on you.
I have no way to know the truth of any of this book. But I do believe this. No matter what B.D. Hyman hated in her mother, nothing excuses this grotesque public commentary about her, most particular at this vulnerable, sad time at the end of her highly productive life. If Ms. Hyman wanted to wade through hundreds of pages as some form of retribution self-therapy, I suppose it was cheaper than a psychiatric effort, and certainly more profitable to publish this bitter, truly hateful, document than simply separating herself from her mother's presence. I know also, that nowhere is the source of the Hyman income to live oh-so-luxuriously-carefree as the family of four did, as noted in the Hyman book. That makes one tend toward the belief the source of the endless income - as it was for other members of Bette's family - was from her. How is it Bette was so desperate for funds late in her life that she consented to work long past her prime in some awful films. Oh yes. I remember now, it was to feed her ego, not her relatives' balance sheets.
Since BD married at age 16 and substituted a religious ministry supposedly for an advanced eductation or useful service, while her husband and his mother-in-law were apparently at odds for 19 years, it does not seem illogical to consider he may have written the book in his wife's name. Ugh. The book portrays them as long suffering, stunningly patient unfailingly caring in the face of endless destructive provocation. Yup. If you choose to read it, buy it on Amazon for a penny. That's more than it's worth.
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Actually, I decided to buy the book where Bette Davis answered to her daughter, the famous This and That, where Bette Davis explains to the reader all those points that according to her were misleading by her daughter.
It'd be such a thrill to receive which I think will be a wonderful and meaningful reading for me.
Regards