Choices

Fülszöveg

w, the publication of her quietly powerful and beautifully written book Changing, Liv Ullmann the actress, whose face was already known to millions, became Liv Ullmann the woman, whose heart and mind were revealea to and embraced by thousands upon thousands of readers. Now she continues her story, giving ite another book, as open, as warm, and as stirring as her first. Choices takes us back into her extraordinary life as she shares with us her most personal thoughts and feelings about her loves, about her daughter, about her work as an actress and her impassioned work for unicef, and—most important and telling—about entering her middle years and finding herself, perhaps for the first time in her life, ready and anxious to make the choices that reflect her own needs and desires rather than those of the people around her.
It is her work for unicef—as the first female Ambassador of Good Will—that eventually brings her to this point. In her travels around the world she encounters... Tovább

Fülszöveg

w, the publication of her quietly powerful and beautifully written book Changing, Liv Ullmann the actress, whose face was already known to millions, became Liv Ullmann the woman, whose heart and mind were revealea to and embraced by thousands upon thousands of readers. Now she continues her story, giving ite another book, as open, as warm, and as stirring as her first. Choices takes us back into her extraordinary life as she shares with us her most personal thoughts and feelings about her loves, about her daughter, about her work as an actress and her impassioned work for unicef, and—most important and telling—about entering her middle years and finding herself, perhaps for the first time in her life, ready and anxious to make the choices that reflect her own needs and desires rather than those of the people around her.
It is her work for unicef—as the first female Ambassador of Good Will—that eventually brings her to this point. In her travels around the world she encounters thousands of children whose small lives hold so much tragedy that there is no room for choice: whether they live or die, and how, is determined by forces completely out of their control. With sympathy and compassion Liv Ullmann relates their stories and explores her own reactions to them: the desperate pain and unexpected joy she shares with them and the profound changes she finds herself undergoing as the plight of these people shocks her into seeing how she has denied herself choice—the "essence of what it is to be human"—by always living up to someone else's image of her, in both her public Vissza