{"product_id":"9781250097828","title":"Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Poignant memoir of a not-so-typical New York Jewish family’s experiences in the midcentury Hollywood demimonde … Equal parts emotional tissue-party and shrewd cultural history.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Dancing at Ciro's\u003c\/i\u003e, Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120968843504,"sku":"9781250097828","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250097828_p0.jpg?v=1769892058","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250097828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}