Candice Bergen’s film credits include The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, Starting Over (for which she received an Oscar nomination), and Miss Congeniality. On television, she made headlines as the star of Murphy Brown, for which she won five Emmys and two Golden Globes. She later starred with James Spader and William Shatner in the critically acclaimed series Boston Legal. A gifted writer, Bergen has penned numerous articles and a play, as well as her first bestselling memoir, Knock Wood, and its follow-up, A Fine Romance.
"Candice Bergen shows how to do a memoir right. . . . The
self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergen's
first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been
deepened by life's surprises. . . . As a fictional newswoman,
Murphy Brown was iconically brassy. As a memoirist, Candice Bergen
is flesh-and-blood classy."
*The New York Times Book Review*
“Bergen is . . . daring in her smart, self-mocking memoir A Fine
Romance. . . . She’s awfully good company.”
*The Wall Street Journal*
“Bergen may not have had Murphy’s sharp elbows or unswerving career
focus, but she reveals herself to be just as complicated and
sophisticated as her television counterpart—and infinitely more
introspective. . . . [A Fine Romance] succeeds in the way a good
memoir should. It presents a human life in full—with great glories
and heartaches and watercolored memories. Bergen tells her story
with humor, confidence and candor. Perhaps she’s not so different
from Murphy after all."
*The Washington Post*
“A Fine Romance is just that. Candice tells her own story with
honesty and humor—a story of loves lost and found, of marriages,
joys and heartaches. I am not sure Candice ever realized her own
beauty or how well she writes. Well, she is, and she does.”
*Barbara Walters*
“Candice Bergen's memoir is moving with the wisdom that only age
can bring. The woman you thought had everything has been through
more than most of us could bear. Revelatory, anguished, and utterly
inspirational.”
*Bette Midler, author of A View from a Broad*
"You'll fall for Bergen's A Fine Romance. . . . Her writing and
storytelling are superb throughout. . . . With this memoir, we're
all likely to be wishing Bergen herself—funny, insightful,
self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that),
and slugging her way through her older years with bemused
determination—was living next door.”
*USA Today*
“Candice’s book is candid, honest, interesting, and reading it, you
love her more than ever.”
*Diane von Furstenberg, author of The Woman I Wanted to Be*
“Bergen is a talented and graceful writer—something she first
demonstrated in Knock Wood, which chronicled her Hollywood youth
and coming of age as the daughter of famed comedian and
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Her literary voice is enormously
engaging, capable of infusing considerable wit and poignancy. . . .
She has something real to say here, and one hopes that her journey
will continue for many years to come—and that eventually she'll
write about that too.”
*Chicago Tribune*
“Candy's memoir is intimate and surprisingly candid. We learn, we
laugh, we marvel because her voice is as honest, funny, and
rapier-smart as Murphy’s. Add in self-reflection and
self-deprecation and you have one heck of a great read.”
*Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent*
“Candy gives us a glimpse into the fascinating world of fame and
shares with us the ordinary in the extraordinary.”
*Carrie Fisher, author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful
Drinking*
"Three decades after writing her memoir Knock Wood, Candice Bergen
has penned a follow-up, A Fine Romance . . . with candor, humor and
poignancy."
*LA Times*
"A surprisingly frank and even bawdy mélange of celebrity fairy
tale, marriage confessional and accounting of the mundane."
*The New York Times*
"Candice Bergen’s follow-up to her Knock Wood is among the more
commendable celebrity memoirs you’ll encounter. . . . Along with
writing skill . . . you’ll be impressed with [her] candor and
wisdom."
*The Buffalo News (Editor's Choice)*
"A Fine Romance is full of heart. Even though Bergen is surrounded
by celebrity friends at the turn of every page, it's evident she is
about as down-to-earth as they come. There is an honesty in her
writing that is both refreshing and encouraging.”
*Associated Press*
“Bergen has a way of making readers think they are friends who
understand her life and know her dreams and frustrations. The book
is forthcoming and refreshingly human.”
*The Examiner*
“Bergen’s rapier wit, warm personality and unflinching honesty make
these stories of life and love all the more appealing.”
*Bookpage*
"With her trademark wit, Bergen leads readers through the highs and
lows of her professional and personal life in this entertaining and
poignant memoir chock-full of Hollywood cameos. . . . Never afraid
to poke fun at herself or celebrity culture, Bergen is as fresh,
funny, and biting as Murphy Brown was nearly 30 years ago."
*Publishers Weekly*
“A glamorously bittersweet showbiz memoir.”
*Kirkus*
“Honest, self-deprecating and well-written.”
*St. Louis Post-Dispatch*
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