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Book

I regret almost everything : a memoir

Call Number

  • 921 M1692 (CEN)

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Edition

First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.

Physical Description

303 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

"The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis ... taking us from his gritty London childhood in the fifties to his serendipitous arrival in New York, where he founded the era-defining establishments the Odeon, Cafe Luxembourg,and Nell's. Eloquent and opinionated, Keith McNally writes about the angst of being a child actor, his lack of insights from traveling overland to Kathmandu at nineteen, the instability of his two marriages and family relationships, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety"--

Notes

Subtitle from cover.

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