The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

Great book. Anderson Cooper's candid interview with his 92 year old mother. The truth about Gloria Vanderbilt's life is heartfelt and a true story of triumph over childhood pain.

easy reading. overall a nice book. i found it interesting that it seems to inadvertently reveals the flaws of Gloria and Anderson. Gloria uses the book to address hers, and accept them. kind of sucks if you look up to Anderson though, as i do professionally. it shows you a very vague, unsatisfactory window into why he is so limited in his personal relations. perhaps in ten years he will write his own book on this.

A wonderful story of the connection between a mother and son, both famous, but also vulnerable.

Very interesting to read into the minds and thoughts, particularly of Gloria.

Book was great although I knew a fair bit about Gloria Vanderbilt before I read it. A nice holiday read.

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J’ai reçu le livre tel que prévu le 7 septembre. Bien hâte de le lire!

Biographies have never been a source of reading pleasure for me. They have always thrown me back to school days when I only skimmed biography's as source material for class assignments. They are usually to loaded with to much family pedigree facts, dates-dates and more dates not to mention people I don't care about and again pedigree's that bored me to death! This was not so much a biography as a late-in-life getting to know each other, rather almost a last ditch effort, in a son finally breaking down the walls of silence and both Mother and Son discovering each other.I must admit, I was already quite familiar with Gloria Vanderbilt and had read all that I could find on her after stumbling across the Poor Little Rich Girl historical documents quite by accident when I waa about 14 and have been rather a fascinated fan of her life ever since and was rather hoping to get a first-person account of her childhood and more tidbits of the glitz and glamour of her life. I knew who Anderson Cooper was and that he was her youngest child and very little about his CNN career as the political world has become a minefield and my respect for journalists had nose-dived in the last 10-15 years when they became less sources for news that purveyors of news as it pertained to their individual opinions. I was surprised to actually find him interesting and "real" and that this book held absolutely no political agenda. It was simply a story told thru correspondence from a Mother and Son and it moved me deeply! It made me question the possibilities of having this same experience with my children but mostly how much it might have helped me understand a Mother that I never was able to talk to, never understood and found I still carried resentments toward 3 years after her death and how it might have helped us bridge the gaps that neither of us were able to find in her lifetime. How much peace I could have maybe found if we had attempted something like this - done thru letters (or rather emails) since face to face talking always ended disastrous for us and how wonderful it might have been to have finally found a way to break thru those barriers and perhaps gotten to know a Mother I loved but a lot of the time did not like.I found the letters fascinating - full of important history - but more importantly such a sweet bonding experience for a famous Mother and her also famous son without the melodrama and last "kick her in the teeth" type of celebrity stories as biographies by Joan Crawford and Bette Davis's daughter's wrote about their Mother's after their deaths! This was felt more like a love story than a biography and I found it both saddened me (at my lost opportunity with my Mother) and made me feel warm & fuzzy at the way this strengthened their relationship as her life was winding down on its last years on this earth. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone - everyone!

É um lindo resgate da relação mãe-filho.

An emotional journey of reading this book, an honest and most trustful conversation between a mother and son. So beautiful,

El día de hoy recibí este libro y la calidad es pésima. Todas las hojas mal cortadas, el tipo de papel utilizado es horrible