PositiveSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\"Field’s memoir takes readers through almost seven decades but ends as it begins, with her mother. As Baa became ill, Field was cast as Mary Todd Lincoln, filming \'Lincoln\' with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis ... Field the writer purposely adheres to her story, which she says is about her relationship with her mother and her development as an actress.
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Patti Smith
MixedSt. Louis Post-DispatchEven readers with well-worn copies of Horses and Radio Ethiopia may find this hard going. There are an awful lot of descriptions of coffee and a lot of summaries of other lives, other books. Smith can seem like an aloof character in her own memoir.
