Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winning actor who has portrayed dozens of iconic roles on both the large and small screens. In 2012, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2015 she was honored by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts. She has served on the Board of Directors of Vital Voices since 2002 and also served on the Board of The Sundance Institute from 1994 to 2010. She has three sons and five grandchildren.
"'In Pieces' is the opposite of a self-aggrandizing, celebrity
biography meant to cement one's place in history. Rather, it's a
vulnerable, frank, almost voyeuristic view inside Field's mind and
her efforts to "piece" together her life's most crucial moments
into a coherent understanding of who she is as a human
being."--Atlantic Journal-Constitution
"A classic in the making - the kind that will land on the
bestseller list...and stay on shelves for years to come."--Boris
Kachka, New York Magazine
"A complex cri de coeur [and] shockingly frank...A rarity in the
world of celebrity memoirs."--p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px
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Today
"A memoir as soulful, wryly witty, and lyrical as it is candid and
courageous... Eye-opening and deeply affecting... Arresting in its
dark disclosures, vitality, humour, and grace, Field's deeply felt
and beautifully written memoir illuminates the experiences and
emotions on which she draws as an exceptionally charismatic,
empathic, and powerful artist."--Booklist
"A reminder that telling your truth can help you heal."--Chicago
Tribune
"Award-winning actress Sally Field could have written a typically
dishy Hollywood memoir. But her book, In Pieces, is an intensely
personal, vulnerable accounting of her life and career. Field's
meditations on memory, fear and love will leave you shattered. Her
lyrical prose and sly humor will glue you back together
again."--NPR, Best Books of 2018
"Beyond the headlines...there's a smart woman's reckoning with her
complicated past."-- People
"Clarity and Grace Shine Through the Darkness in Sally Field's
Memoir... If you come to "In Pieces," expecting to meet a plucky
Sally Field desperate to be liked, you will not find her. Written
by the actor over seven years, without the aid of a ghostwriter,
this somber, intimate and at times wrenching self-portrait feels
like an act of personal investigation - the private act of a woman,
now 71, seeking to understand how she became herself, and striving
to cement together the shards of her psyche that have been chipped
and shattered over the course of her life..."In Pieces" serves as a
kind of tribute to women - her mother in particular - and others
who would guide and protect Field throughout her turbulent
childhood and an adulthood fraught by personal and professional
upheaval."--New York Times Book Review
"Do you ever put off reading a book because it will come to an end?
"In Pieces" hung around my bedroom for a week. Not surprisingly, it
is as delightful as Field is."--The Florida Times-Union
"Fantastic."--Chicago Tribune
"Field fuels this aching, lyrical memoir with frankness about her
emotional childhood, her conflicted relationship with the late Burt
Reynolds, and how acting helped her interpret life in all its pain
and beauty."-- Entertainment Weekly
"Field holds nothing back...This powerful, timely narrative
resonates with pain and triumph."--Library Journal, Best Books of
2018
"Field lays it all on the line...In Pieces is an indelible portrait
of a woman we all thought we knew."--Auburn Citizen
"Field tells her story with such affecting literary depth...with IN
PIECES, she comes to them beautifully."--Entertainment Weekly
"I adored Sally Field's recent memoir, In Pieces. Although it deals
with really heavy subject matter - sexual violence, childhood
trauma - which made me step away for a break at times, her writing
is so captivating. It brings you right into the moment, even
moments that took place decades ago, and brings you along on her
journey of admitting truths to herself about all of the trauma she
has experienced. Her descriptions of acting - as her emotional
release, her true love, her craft - were beautiful, especially
interwoven with what was occurring in her personal life. What a
remarkable woman. (PS: This book made me call my mom and thank her
for being my mom.)"--Buzzfeed
"In Pieces is extraordinary....raw, brutally honest,
introspective."--Pajiba
"Raw and revealing...In her book, seven years in the writing,
[Field] examines the complex relationship with her "perfectly
imperfect" mother, Margaret. That is the thread that holds her
story together: the woman who often held her together....[Sally
Field] is not a woman who will keep quiet any longer. And that's a
good thing. She still has a lot to say."--p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px
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"Sally Field who, at 71, has ripped herself open and written one of
the most exposing memoirs I have ever read. A memoir so honest and
authentic it could not be more right for now if it had been
produced by a trend forecaster algorithm. But, in fact, the timing
is pure coincidence..With a career like hers behind her, she could
have put her feet up and lived off the proceeds, keeping her
girl/granny next door image intact, could have signed off on a
production-line celebrity biography and people would have read it.
Instead, she...fully exposed herself in her memoir... and, in so
doing, put herself front and centre of the very urgent conversation
we're having right now about gender."-- The Pool
"Talented and versatile Academy and Emmy Award-winning actor
Field's credits range from Gidget and Sybil to Norma Rae and Places
in the Heart, among many others. Now she reveals the personal side
of her story, along with her rise to fame. Reverberating throughout
these pages is the impact of sexual abuse by her stepfather and her
struggles to work through her relationship with her beloved mother.
Field addresses these issues frankly, as she does the complex
facets of her marriages and other associations (including her
much-publicized relationship with actor Burt Reynolds), as well as
various episodes in her behind-the-scenes professional life. Her
discussion of building a vibrantly enduring acting career in the
midst of turbulence is especially fascinating. There are vivid
anecdotes from on and off the set, well-drawn accounts of priceless
tutelage by famed Lee Strasberg, and powerful depictions of how
Field crafted major dramatic roles from deep within her emotional
reservoir. It is all here and in Field's inimitable words, enhanced
by thoughtfully chosen photographs.
VERDICT Especially relevant in light of the growing awareness of
rape and sexual assault, this engrossing, well-written work will
appeal to fans and those previously unfamiliar with Field's
work."--Library Journal
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