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Title: A Dark Look at the Life of a Celebrity's Child
Review: How often we might envy the lives of children of the rich, the talented and the famous. But Lois Gould's poignant memoir "Mommy Dressing" again underscores that a childhood lived in the shadow of glamor but without love and affection is no way to grow up. It is a dark moment when Gould asks her mother about a scar only to learn that her mother, who had a horror of doctors, had a rib surgically removed the better to wear the fashions of the 1920s. Gould's portrayal of herself as the gawky, awkward, intellectual daughter of a beautiful woman who dominated the American fashion industry for a time is reminiscent of Susan Cheever's recollections of her life as the daughter of novelist John Cheever. A quickly read but fascinating book.
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