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"""A terrific translation by fellow actress Ringwald makes this concise, harrowing book a powerful read.""--Library Journal ""A touching tribute... Maria Schneider, with all her adventures and struggles, deserves to be better remembered, and her cousin shows us why. This stunning tale of Maria Schneider and her battles is stark yet consistently loving--and unforgettable.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""Translated by actress Ringwald, this is an intriguing addition to the growing body of literature reexamining women's agency through a post-#MeToo lens.""--Booklist ""With devastating power and great originality of style, this gorgeous memoir shows the film industry's brutality toward young women and the ways in which shame can waft into a sensitive girl's bedroom like a draft under a door. In Molly Ringwald's luminous translation, Vanessa Schneider's love letter to her famous actress cousin--and to her own 1970s French bohemian childhood--delivers the emotional impact of great fiction while also faithfully telling an important true-life story about misogyny in our time."" --Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can't Sleep and Also a Poet ""Composed like a posthumous love letter to her cousin, Vanessa Schneider's memoir captures their sisterly bond with tenderness and grace. It is an exquisite portrait of a tragic heroine, whose story offers a heartrending example of the cruelty of powerful men"" --Violaine Huisman, author of The Book of Mother ""Bertolucci made Maria Schneider a star and ruined her life when he cast her in Last Tango in Paris (1972). At 19, she was an authentic sensation and the hottest thing on screen. She was also an exploitable sex object--Bertolucci and Brando, Maria's co-star, never told her that Brando was going to shove butter between her legs--and the butt of a very dirty joke. Aided by translator Molly Ringwald (who understands better than most how perilous the film business can be for young actresses), Vanessa tells Maria's story with empathy and indignation. By the end of the book, the reader understands what it's like to live a life in which public and private, personality and persona violently clash, a life without a safety net.""--Lili Anolik, author of Hollywood's Eve ""In this lovingly written memoir we read our way through the operatic coming of age story of Maria Schneider, the young French actor, who dives gracefully into the combat zone of the extremely competitive film industry, surfaces many times, and then loses sight of land in her own struggle with drugs. I had to know, had to read about Maria as told by her younger, adoring and devoted cousin, Vanessa.""--Deborah Harry, author of Face It, co-founder and frontwoman of Blondie International praise for My Cousin Maria Schneider ""Schneider breathes life back into Maria through this beautiful text--a story with its share of joys and monsters, where emotion is always just beneath the surface.""--Marie-France ""An elegy that never gushes... taut with restrained emotion.""--Livres Hebdo ""A devastating book.""--Vogue France ""As disturbing as it is moving, this book reminds us that Maria Schneider was also, beyond the legend, a woman full of life.""--Madame ""Vanessa Schneider's writing rings strong and true.""--Challenges ""An incredibly moving love letter.""--Le Figaro"

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Vanessa Schneider is a French journalist and novelist. She lives in Paris, where she works at the prestigious daily newspaper Le Monde. For over ten years, she has written award-winning essays and novels that have been translated abroad. My Cousin Maria Schneider is her eighth book, and her first to be translated into English. Molly Ringwald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vogue, and she is the author of the bestselling novel-in-stories When It Happens to You. She previously translated Lie with Me, a novel by Philippe Besson.

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