{"product_id":"9780594437093","title":"Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant","description":"\u003cp\u003eJennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making movies when his daughter was born so that he could be with her and raise her, which is just what he did. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e is an enchanting portrait of the profound and loving relationship between a daughter and her father, who just happens to be one of America’s most iconic male movie stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCary Grant’s own personal childhood archives were burned in World War I, and he took painstaking care to ensure that his daughter would have an accurate record of her early life. In \u003ci\u003eGood Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Grant writes of their life together through her high school and college years until Grant’s death at the age of eighty-two. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCary Grant had a happy way of living, and he gave that to his daughter. He invented the phrase “good stuff” to mean happiness. For the last twenty years of his life, his daughter experienced the full vital passion of her father’s heart, and she now—delightfully—gives us a taste of it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe writes of the lessons he taught her; of the love he showed her; of his childhood as well as her own . . . Here are letters, notes, and funny cards written from father to daughter and those written from her to him . . . as well as bits of conversation between them (Cary Grant kept a tape recorder going for most of their time together).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe writes of their life at 9966 Beverly Grove Drive, living in a farmhouse in the midst of Beverly Hills, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing through the thick and thin of Jennifer's growing up; the years of his work, his travels, his friendships with “old Hollywood royalty” (the Sinatras, the Pecks, the Poitiers, et al.) and with just plain-old royalty (the Rainiers) . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe see Grant the playful dad; Grant the clown, sharing his gifts of laughter through his warm spirit; Grant teaching his daughter about life, about love, about boys, about manners and money, about acting and living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCary Grant was given the indefinable incandescence of charm. He was a pip . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e captures his special quality. It gives us the magic of a father’s devotion (and goofball-ness) as it reveals a daughter’s special odyssey and education of loving, and being loved, by a dad who was Cary Grant.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026998575344,"sku":"9780594437093","price":5.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780594437093_p0.jpg?v=1763786702","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780594437093","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}