Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A House of Secrets by Patti Davis A House Of Secrets. Summary Patti Davis, daughter of our former President , and first lady , wrote a novel about her secret family life. In her story she reveals that her life was not as nice as the world marked it to be. In this section of the story she begins to talk about her childhood, and how (as she would say) grew up in a house of story tellers. Her father, Ronald Reagan would constantly tell her stories so she would be able to go to sleep at night. Patti loved his stories and could not wait until he could tell more. Her mom was quite the opposite. She did not believe in stories, and felt that stories were just lies and fabrications that were unnecessary. The only real story that she ever told her daughter was the one of how hard it was to give birth to her. Unlike Patti's dad, her mom did not appreciate and love her daughter as much. Instead of caring, and loving her the way a mother should, she instantly blamed her child’s existence for all her problems. This caused Patti to eventually detest her mother for all the emotional pain that she put her through. This intense pain stayed with her all the way up to her adult years. It caused her to have a medical procedure to prevent her from having children. Even though Patti felt that by doing this she would be happier, she realized that by stopping herself from having any other children to pass on her generation only made her mother happy. Quote "As time stripped away my childhood from me I became, to my mother, a symbol of her own doubts, her own pain." (Davis 17) Reaction This quote was extremely powerful in the text. Even though this phrase is very short, it has a very devastating, and sympathetic meaning. The way Patti Davis wrote this piece of dialogue makes the reader feel emotional. For a woman to feel that her life will always be a mistake, and will always be known as an abrupt sin, is a very emotional experience that is only filled with anguish and pain. After reading this part I became for thankful about the people who take care of me every day. This quote made me realize that even though not everything goes my way, I can still be thankful to actually have a mother who will care for me, and comfort me in my times of sorrow. A House of Secrets. Though on the outside Carla Lawton's domineering mother and benign but passive father looked like parents in a perfect family, she knew otherwise. And what she knew she couldn't allow to be repeated in the next generation - so she had herself sterilized. By the author of "Home Front". Read More. Though on the outside Carla Lawton's domineering mother and benign but passive father looked like parents in a perfect family, she knew otherwise. And what she knew she couldn't allow to be repeated in the next generation - so she had herself sterilized. By the author of "Home Front". Read Less. All Copies ( 29 ) Softcover ( 1 ) Hardcover ( 24 ) Choose Edition ( 3 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1991, Carol Publishing Corporation. Edition: 1991, Carol Publishing Corporation Hardcover, Very Good Details: ISBN: 1559720824 ISBN-13: 9781559720823 Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation Published: 1991 Language: English Alibris ID: 16627259890 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Very good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. 1991, Carol Publishing Corporation. Halethorpe, MD, USA. 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Costs may vary based on destination. A House of Secrets by Patti Davis. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. A House of Secrets. AA fictionalized indictment of her mother, Nancy Reagan, Patti Davis’ A House of Secrets is an afterthought to her first matricidal effort, Home Front , and a prelude to the tell-all autobiography Putnam has paid her a reported half-million dollars to write. Energetically self-serving, the novel chronicles the emotional torture of a young writer, Carla, by her sharp-tongued mother, Rachel. Even with so promising a model as Nancy Reagan to go by, Davis’ book never quite becomes the Mommie Dearest she obviously envisioned. No doubt this is because Davis has nothing except mildly tasteless revenge to exact: She condemns the widowed, stroke-afflicted Rachel to a wheelchair, where she spends her golden years dribbling soup on her chin. So much for coming to terms with childhood. D. A House of Secrets. The former President's younger daughter follows up her bestselling Homefront and Deadfall and 's Nancy Reagan with a moody, relentlessly introspective story about a moody, relentlessly . Читать весь отзыв. A House of Secrets: A Novel. The tiresome story of the growing pangs of a privileged-but-rebellious child, this poor-little-rich-girl "fiction'' rides on the crest of interest generated by Kitty Kelley's Nancy Reagan: The . Читать весь отзыв. A House of Secrets - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Shipping after receipt of payment. 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