DANCING IN THE LIGHT

by Shirley MacLaine

Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this revealing and exciting memoir, Shirley MacLaine reflects on the turning points of her life and her spiritual journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
 
Outspoken, controversial, talented, and perceptive, Shirley MacLaine takes us on an intimate and fascinating personal odyssey. In 1984 she won an Oscar, starred on Broadway, wrote the bestselling Out on a Limb—and turned fifty years old. At this special time, in this special year, she was now ready to resume the spiritual journey she had begun in her early forties. 
 
In Dancing in the Light, Shirley bares her innermost self and explores the lives, both past and present, which touched and affected her own. She sheds new light on her loves, her losses, her childhood, her passions, and her inner drives and ambitions. She asks poignant questions and finds surprising answers. She challenges her beliefs and confronts her conflicts. Ultimately, she takes us with her through a life-altering experience that provides a stunning new vision of herself, her future . . . and the fate of our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553256970
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1986
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	924,639
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Shirley Maclaine was born and raised in Virginia. She began her career as a Broadway dancer and singer, then progressed to featured performer and award-winning actress in television and films. She has traveled extensively around the world, and her experiences in Africa, Bhutan, and the Far East formed the basis for her first two bestsellers, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain and You Can Get There From Here. Her investigations into the spiritual realm were the focus of Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, It’s All in the Playing, and Going Within, all of which were national and worldwide bestsellers. In her intimate memoir Dance While You Can, she wrote about aging, relationships, work, her parents, her daughter, and her own future as an artist and a woman. My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir offers a candid and searching look at her forty years in Hollywood and the stars who taught her about show business and life.

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Editorial Reviews

After Out on a Limb , MacLaine now offers more of her family background, with reproductions of parental game-playing conversations which must evoke poignant recognitions in children of conflicting adults. Aided by spirit-guided acupuncture, she has been recovering past-life experiences enabling her to deal with this pain. Most moving is her meeting with her Higher Self, which continues to guide her. Another colorful love affair in Paris and Hollywood provides food for the gossip-column fans. More serious are her ruminations on creative artistry, first as a dancer, then as a movie star. Even readers put off by MacLaine's uncritical and wholehearted embrace of reincarnation will have to applaud her candor and zest for discovering the meaning of her life. Jeanne S. Bagby, Tucson P.L., Ariz.

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